Savage Art A Biography of Jim Thompson (Paperback)
| Author: Robert Polito |
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| Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos. |
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Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos. |
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The first comprehensive biography of the author of "The Grifters" and "The Killer Inside Me" includes 40 photographs. This book traces Thompson's involvement in the Wobblies and the Communist party; the "true crime" magazines and pulp fiction houses where Thompson's work was initially published; and his experience in Hollywood with Stanley Kubrick and others. In 1977, Thompson died a poverty-stricken alcoholic. Most of his books are now back in print, and four of them have recently been filmed.
The first comprehensive biography of the author of "The Grifters" and "The Killer Inside Me" includes 40 photographs. This book traces Thompson's involvement in the Wobblies and the Communist party; the "true crime" magazines and pulp fiction houses where Thompson's work was initially published; and his experience in Hollywood with Stanley Kubrick and others. In 1977, Thompson died a poverty-stricken alcoholic. Most of his books are now back in print, and four of them have recently been filmed.
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Robert Polito
Robert Polito has directed the writing program at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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"Polito not only takes Thompson's measure as a man and a writer, but makes you feel what it must have been like to be this quiet, raging man in a biography nearly as dark as it subject's own fiction." 08/15/1995 Literary Review
"Robert Polito, a dedicated cheerleader...presents Thompson as the founding father of contemporary crime noir...." - Philip Oakes Spectator
"Had Robert Polito not meticulously preserved Jim Thompson's life in this award-winning biography, it is not a story that would have survived....The result is a poignant reminder of how exhausting a task modern literary biographies are going to face over the next few decades--by replacing letters, the telephone a has stripped most recent lives of the biographer's favourite source material." - Tom Hiney 06/21/1997
"Polito not only takes Thompson's measure as a man and a writer, but makes you feel what it must have been like to be this quiet, raging man in a biography nearly as dark as it subject's own fiction." 08/15/1995 Literary Review
"Robert Polito, a dedicated cheerleader...presents Thompson as the founding father of contemporary crime noir...." - Philip Oakes Spectator
"Had Robert Polito not meticulously preserved Jim Thompson's life in this award-winning biography, it is not a story that would have survived....The result is a poignant reminder of how exhausting a task modern literary biographies are going to face over the next few decades--by replacing letters, the telephone a has stripped most recent lives of the biographer's favourite source material." - Tom Hiney 06/21/1997
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