Jim thompson was born in anadarko, oklahoma, the son of a county sheriff. 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. After dark, my sweet 1955 hardcover paperback kindle. After dark, my sweet jim thompson popular library, 1955. After dark, my sweet is a 1955 american crime novel by jim thompson plot. Jim thompson 19061977 was born in anadarko, oklahoma.
Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Sleep with the devil study guide and get instant access to the following summary. When a series of debilitating strokes robbed jim thompson of his powers of speech, it must have felt as if he had descended into the kind of nightmarish, terrifying, personal hell he reserved for some of the characters in his novels. After dark, my sweet 1990 tells their story as an inevitable progress toward failure and doom. Kid, desperately wanting to be loved by fay, accepts but soon becomes suspicious. The writing in collins voice is welldone and the book was written with. Mar 31, 2020 jim thompson was born in anadarko, oklahoma, the son of a county sheriff. After dark, my sweet jim thompson bill collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but hes a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. Her uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the exfighter must make.
After dark, my sweet mulholland classic kindle edition by. In a roadhouse he meets a woman who in turn introduces him to her uncle bud. In his 1955 novel, after dark, my sweet, the narrator is kid collins, a onetime boxing phenom, who left the ring after he welcome to jim thompsons twisted world. A film based on after dark, my sweet has been released, versions of the grifters and the killoff have been completed, and at least. Jim thompson audio books, best sellers, author bio. William collins is a former boxer with a deadly accident in his past. He wrote more than 30 books majority of which were original paperback.
As a hotel worker, he had access to bootleg liquor and drugs, and he smoked and drank heavily. His first short stories were published in his teen years. Jim thompson is an internationally published firearms writer, photographer, and consultant with more than five decades of experience as a serious shooter and experimenter. Mar, 2005 that ambivalence is the essence of thompsons novel and foleys film. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The basis of james foleys critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, thompsons classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people alltooeasily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down. Buy a cheap copy of after dark, my sweet book by jim thompson. Books by jim thompson authors like jim thompson what. I have seen after dark, my sweet four times, and it only deepens with the retelling. After dark, my sweet is a 1990 film about an exboxer who is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. 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. After dark, my sweet by james meyers thompson jim thompson. However, his novels were republished in the 80s under the black lizard imprint, leading to him receiving more popularity posthumously.
After dark, my sweet mulholland classic kindle edition. There is a reference to thompsons book the killer inside me in the song, sri lanka sex hotel. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Thompson eventually wrote 29 novels and cowrote two screenplays. In the 1960s, he scripted episodes for the tv shows tales of wells fargo and dr. After dark, my sweet by jim thompson in doc, epub, fb3 download ebook. After dark, my sweet is a 1990 american neonoir crime thriller film directed by james foley and starring jason patric, bruce dern, and rachel ward. But, thompson wrote differently than almost anyone else at that time.
Reading the jim thompson bio, savage art, lion books had pruchased too many manuscripts from the writer. They lure him into joining them in the kidnapping of a young boy from a wealthyfamily. Jim thompson was an american author and screenwriter famously known for his hardboiled crime fiction. After dark, my sweet once again displays jim thompson as the undisputed master of american noir. Books by jim thompson writers similar to jim thompson. William collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. After dark, my sweet book by jim thompson thriftbooks.
Several of his novels were adapted into films, resulting in the classic noir the killer. The movie, based on a novel by jim thompson, the poet of circa1950 pulp noir, has a stubborn, sullen truth to it, focusing on its handful of characters during the course of a particularly incompetent kidnapping. Several of his novels have been filmed by american and french directors, resulting in classic noir including the killer inside me. Several of his novels were adapted into films, resulting in the classic noir the killer inside me, after dark my sweet, and the grifters. After dark, my sweet is a 1990 american neonoir film directed by james foley and starring jason patric, bruce dern, and rachel ward. In fact, just about everythings on slow boil in after dark, my sweet, a neonoir adaptation of toughguy novelist jim thompsons 1955 book. Although he was praised by critics during his lifetime, thompson gained little commercial success in comparison. Jim thompson books list of books by author jim thompson. William collins is a former boxer now drifter who has broken out of a mental hospital. Download or stream after dark, my sweet by jim thompson. After dark my sweet was a 1955 paperback published threeyears after his best. After dark, my sweet by jim thompson fantastic fiction. Other novels including the grifters 1963 and after dark, my sweet 1955 have been turned into major hollywood films. Exboxer kevin kid collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital.
Despite gaining positive critics notably by anthony boucher, he was little recognized in his lifetime. Isbn 9780679401919 9780679401919 random house audio, 1991. See more ideas about pulp fiction, pulp fiction book and novels. An exboxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. An influential crime novelist of the hardboiled school, jim thompson collaborated on the screenplays for stanley kubricks the killing and paths of glory. After dark, my sweet the killer inside me thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications, published from the late1940s through mid1950s.
Jim thompson books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography barnes. Cigarettes and alchohol the extraordinary life of jim. Collins has broken out of his fourth mental hospital and met a con man and a beautiful woman, whose plans for him include murder and kidnapping. After dark, my sweet is only my second exposure to jim thompson, but its enough to make me realize that of all the mans talents fascinating plotting, intriguing characters, a bleakly cynical worldview none may be more fascinating than his ability to immerse you in the mind of disturbed, irrational, damaged men. With jason patric, rachel ward, bruce dern, rocky giordani. Strategy guide packed with information about walkthroughs, quests, skills and abilities and much more. He eventually wrote twentynine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals, and two screenplays, for the stanley kubrick films the killing and. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to true detective when he was only fourteen. Download after dark, my sweet audiobook by jim thompson. A thompson revival began in the mid1980s with a series of reprints and was bolstered by movie adaptations ofthe getaway, the grifters, and after dark, my sweet. On his way south, he meets fay, an alcoholic widow, and the no good uncle bud who proposed he take part in the kidnapping of the little charles vandermeer. The minithompson boom continued with james foleys after dark, my sweet 1990, steven shainbergs hit me 1996, adapted from thompsons 1954 book a swelllooking babe, and michael oblowitzs. What james foley has done with the jim thompson thriller after dark, my sweet is probably somebodys idea of tough. He eventually wrote twentynine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals, and two screenplays, for the stanley kubrick films the killing and paths of glory.
This omnibus edition contains five novels by jim thompson. After dark, my sweet isbn 9780316195904 pdf epub chelsea. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. It begins with exhaustion and despair, stirs itself into halfhearted evil, and then in a final desperate sequence finds barely enough heroism to bring itself to a stop again. So this is about a kidnapping that goes horribly wrong. After dark, my sweet is a novel written by jim thompson in 1955. Her uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the exfighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right. Buy after dark, my sweet mulholland classic by thompson, jim from amazons fiction books store. His family relocated to texas during his childhood.
After dark, my sweet by jim thompson, paperback barnes. After dark, my sweetjim thompsonoriginally published 1955 the. Sleep with the devil study guide and get instant access to. Oct 14, 1990 a film based on after dark, my sweet has been released, versions of the grifters and the killoff have been completed, and at least four other novels have been optioned for the screen. After dark, my sweet by jim thompson book cover, description, publication history. Instead the bulk of the book focuses on the way those few incidents affect. Students of jim thompsons career point to the 1950s as his most. It seems that jim thompsons world of 1950s downandouts, alcoholics, criminals, and the mentally disturbed all come together rather nicely in this short novel, after dark, my sweet. Thompson was one of the greatest of the 1950s pulp writers.
Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this jim thompson. After dark, my sweet is a 1955 american crime novel written by jim thompson. Classic noir story and the author who wrote this also wrote the grifters which is one of my favorite movies although i have yet to read that book. By that time, despite his popularity in the 1950s, he was virtually forgotten. Thompson is the coauthor of two screenplays with stanley kubrick both largely written by thompson and credited to kubrick. Kurt vonnegut raymond chandler joseph heller dashiell hammett hunter s thompson bret easton ellis ken kesey cormac mc carthy james ellroy michael connelly.
Jim thompson 19061977 was an american author of hardboiled crime fiction. Aug 20, 2012 in examining the underbelly of human experience and american society in particular, thompson s work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her exhusband left. By the time jim thompson was 16 years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumbers helper, a comedian in tworeel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel, and over a dozen other occupations. Thompson also cowrote two screenplays for the stanley kubrick films the killing and paths of glory.
Nov 01, 2011 after dark, my sweet once again displays jim thompson as the undisputed master of american noir. There is a movie version as well starring jason patrick. The novels are similarly contained within underworlds of spiralling paranoia, nightmare shifts of identity and blackmail. Twenty years after his death, jim thompsons work was finally admitted into. Jun 05, 2010 twenty years after his death, jim thompson s work was finally admitted into.
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