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The Grifters - Softcover

Thompson, Jim

 
9780752864280: The Grifters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752864289 ISBN 13: 9780752864280
Verlag: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek). Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement, and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. Among his many novels are THE KILLER INSIDE ME, THE GRIFTERS, THE GETAWAY and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY). POP. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title COUP DE TORCHON.

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Verlag
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752864289
ISBN 13 
9780752864280
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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