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Bad Boy

By Jim Thompson

Bad Boy

By Jim Thompson

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At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where he supplemented his income peddling bootleg out of the package room. He shuddered out the DTs as a watchman on a West Texas oil pipeline. He outraged teachers, cheated mobsters, and almost got himself beaten to death by a homicidal sheriff's deputy. And somewhere along the way, Thompson became one of the greatest crime writers America has ever known. In this uproarious autobiographical tale, the author of After Dark, My Sweet and Pop. 1280 tells the story of his chaotic coming of age and reveals just where he acquired his encyclopedic knowledge of human misbehavior. Bad Boy is a bawdy, brawling book of reprobates--and an unfettered portrait of a writer growing up in the Southwest of the Roaring Twenties.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2014-08-05
Publication Date:
2014-08-05
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
031640375X
ISBN13:
9780316403757
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
212 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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