Jim Thompson

Cropper's Cabin

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Produktbeschreibung

"Nineteen-year-old Carver is poised to rise above his humble origins as the son of the Okie sharecropper: he's getting an education, and he's begun a secret romance with Donna, a prominent landlord's daughter. He can't help falling for her unearthly beauty and her passion for life that rivals Tommy's own. But Tommy's father hates Donna's father, and the feeling is mutual. Everybody knows that star-crossed lovers never have happy endings -- and yet they've never seen explosive parties like these. Filled with lust and brutality, Cropper's Cabin is a hair-raising thriller. Jim Thompson does what no writer has done better before or since - captures the hardscrabble existence of small-town American lives set to blow"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780316403764
• ISBN-10: 0316403768
• Artikelnr.: 40137829

Autorenporträt

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).