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Getaway
by Thompson, Jim
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 9177017781
- ISBN 13
- 9789177017783
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About This Item
Original Hardcover. Publisher: Modernista | Utg. 2017 | Original Hardcover | 150 p. | This book is brand new. | Original title: The Getaway | Translator: Larsson, Inge R. L. | Series: Modernista klassiker | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: »För den som vill ha sin deckare rå som sushi.« | Göteborgsposten »Den störste kriminalförfattaren av dem alla.« | New York Times Doc McCoys skicklighet som brottsling vet nästan inga gränser. Men inte ens för McCoy finns det något sådant som ett perfekt bankrån - inte utan en perfekt flykt. På grund av en förrädisk och klumpig partner får bankrånet i stället förödande konsekvenser. Ett enda litet misstag kastar Doc McCoy rakt in i ett helvete präglat av blod, svek och kaos - till brädden fyllt av våld och bristande lojaliteter - där ingen handling är utan baktanke. Getaway är boken som alla andra bankrånsskildringar måste mäta sig mot. Såväl Steve McQueen och Alec Baldwin har axlat rollen som Doc McCoy på vita duken. Men det är mest av allt Jim Thompsons mörka, skitiga prosa som gör Getaway till ett sådant mästerverk i sin genre. I översättning av Inge R. L. Larsson. JIM THOMPSON [1906-1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Han har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker och räknas, tillsammans med Raymond Chandler och James Ellroy, som en av de främsta - och mest hårdkokta - noirförfattarna genom tiderna. Modernista ger nu ut Jim Thompsons två största klassiker: Getaway från 1958 och Grifters från 1963. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
(1906 - 1977) James Meyers 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 wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory”). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, Thompson’s work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. 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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- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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- BIB-626730
- Title
- Getaway
- Author
- Thompson, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Original Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 9177017781
- ISBN 13
- 9789177017783
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