RARA-AVIS: Re: Thompson Novelizations

From: m23to53 (library.john@virgin.net)
Date: 13 Jun 2009

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    Novel was published 1967 as a Popular Library paperback. Film was released in 1964, with a largely black cast, about racial issues in the South. One review says 'quietly beautiful film about a black American man dealing with what he deals with...'

    John

    --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer" <jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
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    > > Seems to me there are three. I'm away from my books, but I think that in
    > > addition to Ironside and The Undefeated there's one called something like
    > > Nothing But a Man, not to be confused with The Nothing Man.
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    > Yes, there are three novelizations. I know I read Nothing But a Man, but I have no recollection of it. The Thompson novel I really disliked was The Golden Gizmo with the talking dog.
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    > I think the best Thompson books were the semi-autobiographical ones, Bad Boy and Roughneck.
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    > Jeff
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