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Rated 4 starsA Very Funny, Engaging Book
I suspect Thompson may have revealed more of himself in this book than in any other novel. He was, of course, an alcoholic. He was also a smart, talented writer who thought more deeply about the human condition than most thriller writers. This book reflects that thinking -- the penetrating, often cruel insights of a gifted man who was frustrated at watching less intelligent, less talented people succeed where he failed...
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Rated 4 starsA less dark, more sympathetic Jim Thompson novel
Jim Thompson is one of the crime novel greats. Author of "The Killer Inside Me," "The Grifters" and many others (quite a few of which have been made into movies), Thompson celebrates the darker side of the petty criminal, the small town sherrif and the down on his luck con man. Usually, that is. In this slim 1953 novel, Thompson turns his attention to alcoholism as a disease and its treatment. Ho-hum? No way. Thompson...
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