'Course, for a well-rounded perspective, reading both couldn't hurt. ;-)
Ron
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> Behalf Of Ron Clinton
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> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Jim Thompson: Where'd He Go?
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> Ah, okay -- got it. Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil, by Michael
> McCauley, is the other one I reference below.
>
> Again, though, stick with the Polito volume. It didn't win the National
> Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for nothing.
>
> Ron C.
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On
> > Behalf Of Ron Clinton
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> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Jim Thompson: Where'd He Go?
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> >
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> > > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Kevin Burton Smith
> > > Hmmm... has anyone written (or can recommend) a really good biography
on
> > > Thompson, something on the level of Tom Nolan's amazing Ross Macdonald
> > book
> > > a few years ago? Thompson's life, and his subsequent literary
> reevaluation
> > and
> > > rediscovery, would probably make for a very good read.
> >
> > Robert Polito - Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. Highly
> > recommended.
> >
> > There's another one...it has a gray dj...but I'll be damned if I can
> > remember the title. Maybe someone else can. Either way, Polito's book
is
> > the one you want.
> >
> > Ron C.
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