When Jim Thompson was courting Alberta, he would tease her with the line that he had been born in jail.
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Savage art
a biography of Jim Thompson
1st ed.
by Robert Polito
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Jim Thompson wrote some of the darkest, boldest, and most celebrated modern crime novels, including The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me. In Savage Art, Robert Polito provides the first comprehensive biography of this brilliant American original.
Combining exhaustive research with novelistic fluency, Polito reproduces the vital textures of Thompson's world and provides the first thorough chronicle of his private and public history, tracing Thompson's dramatization of his innermost life in the "savage art" of his surprisingly personal novels. A vivid and compelling reclamation of a lost American writer, Savage Art is also a stunning addition to the literary annals of twentieth-century America.
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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
October 1, 1996, Vintage
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Savage art: a biography of Jim Thompson
1995, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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