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A Hell of a Woman (Crime Masterworks)

A Hell of a Woman (Crime Masterworks)

by JimThompson (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $14.36
Synopsis

A Hell of a Woman is Jim Thompson's version of an American Crime and Punishment. In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, 'Dolly' Dillon, a door-to-door salesman, goes about the appalling business of murder without conscience, without remorse and without any hope of redemption, because of a woman ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0752852108
ISBN 13: 9780752852102
Book Overview: 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' The New York Times 'Thompson's writing is dense, lurid, idiomatic, musical in its speech rhythms ... alternatively plaintive and obscene ... raucous and bitterly funny' The Village Voice 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it' The Washington Post 'A master of the noir crime novel. His vision of small town America ... is uniquely compelling' Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction 'Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell' New Republic.

Author Bio
Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Among his many novels are The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, The Getaway and After Dark, My Sweet. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Pop. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title Coup de Torchon.