Heed the Thunder (The Armchair Detective Library) - Hardcover

Thompson, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0922890986 ISBN 13: 9780922890989

Publisher: Armchair Detective Library, 1991

Synopsis

Lincoln Fargo--former Civil War soldier, riverboat owner, stonemason, and saloonkeeper, and the patriarch of the powerful Fargo clan--struggles to survive in a rapidly changing world

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From the Inside Flap:

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.

About the Author:

(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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Armchair Detective Library
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0922890986
• ISBN 13: 9780922890989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297