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Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding the rails in the 30's to getting drunk while working in a morgue only to move on to odd jobs as a baker, a collector, even as a writer of labor history for the W.P.A. Absurd scenarios swirl around this man like the savage dust storms sweeping over the dried out prairie states he traveled. He tries to write the Great American Novel with the help of a prostitute with a heart of gold, hustles deadbeats, has bull sessions with bunglers and bagmen, con men and corpses. He'll take you through a tour of all the lowlife characters America has to offer. These are the people that make his fiction so real and vibrant. Roughneck is a brilliant tell-all, a sharp character study, and a unique look into the life of a true American original. Thompson may even be the best character in his long career of creating supremely rich characters. Thompson's life in Thompson's own words is as frightening and humorous a memoir as they come.
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- Title Roughneck
- Author Jim Thompson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition First Thus
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Warner Books (NY), New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date December 1988
- ISBN 9780445406735 / 0445406739
- Weight 0.14 lbs (0.06 kg)
- Dimensions 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.4 in (16.76 x 10.41 x 1.02 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st prtg January 1989, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy, paper is age toned. 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.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No…
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