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| Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos. |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award |
| Authors: |
Robert Polito |
| Nonfiction Subcategory: |
Artists · Architects · Photographers |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Biography & Autobiography |
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Professional Reviews
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Kirkus: "Polito not only takes Thompson's measure as a man and a writer, but makes you feel what it must have been like to be this quiet, raging man in a biography nearly as dark as it subject's own fiction.", Hiney, Tom, Spectator: "Had Robert Polito not meticulously preserved Jim Thompson's life in this award-winning biography, it is not a story that would have survived....The result is a poignant reminder of how exhausting a task modern literary biographies are going to face over the next few decades--by replacing letters, the telephone a has stripped most recent lives of the biographer's favourite source material.", Oakes, Philip, Literary Review: "Robert Polito, a dedicated cheerleader...presents Thompson as the founding father of contemporary crime noir...." |
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Book Editions
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- Paperback
- October 01, 1996
- Random House Inc
- 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 1.15 lbs.
- 9780679733522
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