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The Gifters

Name: The Gifters
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Jim Thompson
ISBN: 9781409130208

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Jim Thompson

Orion
Paru le : 21/07/2010

Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESRoy... > Lire la suite

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Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESRoy 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.
The Grifters, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's critically-acclaimed film of the same name.

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Date de parution : 21/07/2010
Editeur : Orion
ISBN : 978-1-4091-3020-8
EAN : 9781409130208
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Jim Thompson

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.