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Heed the Thunder
by Jim Thompson (Introduction by James Ellroy
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0922890994
- ISBN 13
- 9780922890996
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About This Item
The Armchair Detective Library, New York 1991. First Edition Thus of the author's second novel, originally published by Greenberg in 1946. Copy #23/100 numbered copies signed by James Ellroy [who wrote the introduction]. 297 pages. Fine copy, not issued in jacket,in fine slipcase..LR5/6E
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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- Bookseller
- biblioboy
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 864379
- Title
- Heed the Thunder
- Author
- Jim Thompson (Introduction by James Ellroy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0922890994
- ISBN 13
- 9780922890996
- Publisher
- The Armchair Detective Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 297
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall.
- Keywords
- 0922890994, HARD-BOILED, SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, FICTION
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