Roughneck - Jim Thompson - Books - Mulholland Books - 9780316403818 - August 5, 2014
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Roughneck Reissue edition

Jim Thompson

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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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 5, 2014
ISBN13 9780316403818
Publishers Mulholland Books
Pages 224
Dimensions 204 g
Language English  

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