Just finished the book Eyeing the Flash by Peter Fenton. It's
non-fiction, a biography in fact, of a guy who worked summers
through high school (1963-67) as a carnival huckster and con
artist. The reason I mention it here is that it reminded me
of Jim Thompson's autobiographical novels, Roughneck and Bad
Boy and also of The Grifters. I ran across it in the True
Crime section of my local bookstore and the jacket blurbs
sounded interesting and it was a great read. It definitely
read like a Jim Thompson novel and having just finished
reading all 30 of his novels I was eager for anything
similar.
I've also started Luc Sante's Library of Larceny series with
The Telephone Booth Indian, which would mostly be of interest
to New Yorkers in that it's a collection of essays on
different fringe subcultures of old Broadway. There is also
an essay on world fair hucksters of the 30s and 40s.
Jeff
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