Now and on Earth by Thompson, Jim

Now and on Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316403948)

Vendor: Jim Thompson
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Format: Paperback
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Now and on Earth by Thompson, Jim

Now and on Earth

$15.00
Now and on Earth by Thompson, Jim

Now and on Earth

$15.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better.

Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.

Author: Jim Thompson
ISBN-10: 0316403946
ISBN-13: 9780316403948
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Jim Thompson
By Jim Thompson
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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).

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