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a biography of Jim Thompson

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An edition of Savage Art (1995)

Savage art

a biography of Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson wrote some of the darkest, boldest, and most celebrated modern crime novels, including The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me. In Savage Art, Robert Polito provides the first comprehensive biography of this brilliant American original.

Combining exhaustive research with novelistic fluency, Polito reproduces the vital textures of Thompson's world and provides the first thorough chronicle of his private and public history, tracing Thompson's dramatization of his innermost life in the "savage art" of his surprisingly personal novels. A vivid and compelling reclamation of a lost American writer, Savage Art is also a stunning addition to the literary annals of twentieth-century America.

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Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
543

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Subjects
American Novelists, Biography, Crime in literature, Novelists, American, Biographie, Thompson, jim, 1906-1977, Authors, american
People
Jim Thompson (1906-1977)
Times
20th century

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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
October 1, 1996, Vintage
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Savage art: a biography of Jim Thompson
1995, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3539.H6733 Z83 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 543 p. :
Number of pages
543

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1121680M
Internet Archive
savageartbiograp00poli
ISBN 10
0394584074
LCCN
94048455
OCLC/WorldCat
31815111
Library Thing
208589
Goodreads
579059

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When Jim Thompson was courting Alberta, he would tease her with the line that he had been born in jail.
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