The Alcoholics
Autor Jim Thompson Cuvânt înainte de Doug Dorsten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2014
Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn'texactlyan alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good--until the rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr. Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long.
A literary precursor toOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, THE ALCOHOLICS is Thompson like you've never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316403955
ISBN-10: 0316403954
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 0316403954
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
Notă biografică
Jim
Thompson
was
born
in
Anadarko,
Oklahoma.
He
began
writing
fiction
at
a
very
young
age,
selling
his
first
story
toTrue
Detectivewhen
he
was
only
fourteen.
Thompson
eventually
wrote
twenty-nine
novels,
all
but
three
of
which
were
published
as
paperback
originals.
Thompson
also
co-wrote
two
screenplays
(for
the
Stanley
Kubrick
filmsThe
KillingandPaths
of
Glory).
Several
of
his
novels
have
been
filmed
by
American
and
French
directors,
resulting
in
classic
noir
includingThe
Killer
Inside
Me(1952),After
Dark
My
Sweet(1955),
andThe
Grifters(1963).