- Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
- Verlag: Serpent's Tail (6. März 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1852425717
- ISBN-13: 978-1852425715
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20 x 13,2 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.624.420 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Jim Thompson was one of the greatest crime novelists ever, leaving behind a legacy of hard-boiled classics like The Grifters and The Getaway. Robert Polito has written the definitive biography of this brilliant American original. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.
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Jim Thompson--author of The Killer inside Me and many other noir classics--suffered from the artistic curse of being ahead of his time. Though he made a living of sorts as a writer, it was only long after his death in April 1977 that his work received the acclaim it deserved. Polito, who edited an anthology of Thompson's uncollected work entitled Fireworks (1988), examines both the life and the work in this satisfying biography. He moves chronologically through Thompson's life, offering parallel critiques of his writings, from the early true-crime magazine work through the later, now-celebrated novels. The critical analysis is perceptive and focuses on Thompson's influence on succeeding crime writers, but it is the personal biography that will entrance readers. Thompson led a troubled life, beset by chronic alcoholism and associated physical ailments, and it seems at times as if he couldn't maintain a deep emotional relationship with anyone over a long period. Somehow that loneliness and isolation flowed through Thompson's pen and transformed itself into a fictional world in which only greed and lust and jealousy motivate human behavior. It makes compelling reading, but it must have been hell to live there. Wes Lukowsky
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I didn't think it was possible to write a full-scale biography of Thompson because of his scattered, secret life. But Polito has pulled off the seemingly impossible. He gathers together unexpected facts from obscure sources in places all over the country. He combines this with excellent, insightful analysis of this tortured writer's work. When I first read Thompson's novels back in the mid-'80's, it felt like my brain was being turned inside out. I was so astonished I went out and bought every one. Now thanks to Polito we can begin to understand the sources of the horror and the humanity of his novels.
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My only complaint about this honest and thorough bio is that Thompson was a lazy crybaby. His writing was inconsistent, as was his character. I loved every minute of this great life story.
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Since I read a Jim Thompson novel for the first time, I though he was truly one of America's most gifted and important writers. A literary heir to the likes of Chandler and Cain, he was, like them, able to raise the mystery genre to a whole new level of American literature. Of course, whether you like Thompson's work or not, is entirely subjective, but if you admire him as much as I do. "Savage Art" by Ron Polito is an important key to understanding Thompson and his work. Like most independent geniuses, Thompson led a hard and often lonely life which he put into his writing. HIs characters wear masks so much that they often don't know who they are. Polito picks up on this recurring theme and uses it to explore Thompson's turbulent life and use of masks. This book made me appreciate Thompson even more and I've reread all of his books since finishing "it. This bio is truly a key to understanding and appreciating Thompson's work to it fullest extent.
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