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Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty.
In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45.
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In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45.
(1906 - 1977) James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory”). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, Thompson’s work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).
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- PublisherArmchair Detective Library
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0922890994
- ISBN 13 9780922890996
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages297
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HEED THE THUNDER [Limited Edition] [SIGNED COPY]
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Book Description Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st ed. A Fine, unread copy in burgundy cloth with small paste down of Thompson's portrait on front board, in slipcase w/o dj as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by James Ellroy who wrote the introduction. 297 pages. Originally published in 1946 and unavailable in any edition for over 45 yrs. Signed. Limited Edition. Seller Inventory # 002830
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Heed the Thunder
Published by
The Armchair Detective Library, New York
(1991)
ISBN 10: 0922890994
ISBN 13: 9780922890996
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. The Armchair Detective Library, New York 1991. First Edition Thus of the author's second novel, originally published by Greenberg in 1946. Copy #23/100 numbered copies signed by James Ellroy [who wrote the introduction]. 297 pages. Fine copy, not issued in jacket,in fine slipcase.LR5/6E. Seller Inventory # 864379
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