By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a
newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a
comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel
and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he
was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to
his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking
for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.
A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK
chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright
unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's
most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or
wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard
times have never sounded so good.
General
| Imprint: |
Little, Brown
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Mulholland Classic |
| Release date: |
August 2014 |
| First published: |
August 2014 |
| Authors: |
Jim Thompson
|
| Dimensions: |
208 x 137 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-316-40381-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-316-40381-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780316403818 |
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