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A number of Thompson's books were adapted as popular films, including The Getaway and The Grifters. The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor Horace McCoy ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". [1]
Regency Books: Publication date. 1963: Publication place: United States: Media type: Print: The Grifters is a noir fiction novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1963 ...
A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.
The book contains six stories by six masters of hard-boiled noir and the teleplays for their film adaptations. The hard-boiled stories were written by: Raymond Chandler , Jim Thompson , William Campbell Gault, Cornell Woolrich , Jonathan Craig and James Ellroy .
Barry Gifford's relationship with Black Lizard is also sometimes credited with having first applied the term noir fiction to a certain subgenre of hardboiled fiction. Thus, in an introduction written by Gifford to the Black Lizard editions of Jim Thompson's novels in 1984, Gifford writes: "The French seem to appreciate best Thompson's brand of ...
The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. [1] In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written." [2] [3]
Pages in category "Novels by Jim Thompson" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Bad Boy (1953 book) C. The Criminal (novel) G.
Much has been made of the symbolism of the last third of the book, in which the text transitions from a gritty crime thriller into a surreal and heavily allegorical drama. The caves that Ma Santis compels McCoy and Carol to hide in have been analogized to tombs or graves , the manure pile to rot and decomposition, and the boat ride to crossing ...
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