Savage Art: The Life of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito
'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a death by swallowing mattress stuffing. Not a head you'd want, though you might envy the prose. A great biography' Brian Case, Time Out
?Savage Art is no less than a great literary biographyIt reads like a great biographical novel - one life explored, dissected, and infused with a wealth of rich details. Robert Polito brilliantly riffs off Jim Thomson?s life and gives us the world he lived in. This is a teriffic - and terrifically entertaining book? James Ellroy ?If you?ve not discovered Thompson, start now: he?s a true American original? City Life ?Savage Art is a model biography: unsensationalist and serious, but a genuinely illuminating work? GQ
Robert Polito coedited and introduced Fireworks, an anthology of Jim Thompson's 'lost writings.' He is also the author of Doubles (a book of poems) and A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's 'The Changing Light at Sandover.' He is director of the writing program at the New School for Social Research and lives in New York City. Savage Art was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852425715 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852425717 |
| Title | Savage Art: The Life of Jim Thompson |
| Author | Robert Polito |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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