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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito

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Savage Art won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9780679733522
Topics
Jim Thompson's lifeCrime fiction writingAlcoholism and family struggles

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