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| Original Title: | The Grifters |
| ISBN: | 0316404055 (ISBN13: 9780316404051) |
| Characters: | Roy Dillon, Moira Langtry, Lilly, Bobo Justus |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) |
Jim Thompson
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.85 | 9897 Users | 437 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Grifters |
| Author | : | Jim Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 2014 by Mulholland Books (first published January 1st 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Noir. Thriller |
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To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother.
THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's critically-acclaimed film of the same name.
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Ratings: 3.85 From 9897 Users | 437 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books The Grifters
I saw the movie all those years ago and thought it was amazing. Blew my mind. I had no idea it was based on a book. In my defense it was 1990. I was deep into my fantasy only phase. I am glad to have read the "source" material. I think it is darker than the movie. That is why books tend to be better, we get into the characters heads. I felt as I was reading there was a timeless quality. It could take place at almost anytime in history. People are people. My only issue with the book was Carol. ISalesman Roy Dillon has a secret life as a top shelf grifter. When he has the opportunity to go legit, how will the women in his life take it? Will his downfall be at the hands of his girlfriend Moira Langtry, or his mother, Lilly?Here we are, another noir tale of self-destruction by Mr. Happy, Jim Thompson."Don't trust anyone ever" seems to be the moral of The Grifters. Not surprising since most of the main characters are shady croooks and grifters to some degree. Roy runs short cons. Moira
For all you Petey Positives and Betty Bright sides out there peering around corners looking for humanitys better angels, Jim Thompson is slinging a sledge hammer ready to shatter your shiny happy illusions. His message: people well and truly suck. Personally, Im enough of a cynic regarding my fellow humans that Jimmys words don't choke me going down. They're like 18 year old scotch warming up my cockles. In this slice the vein of life story, Jim introduces us to 3 peas in a seriously fuckoed
I'm not a big Jim Thompson fan. When it comes to American crime fiction, I prefer the novels of Charles Willeford and Charles Williams over the ones by Thompson. I am often irritated by Thompson's lack of attention to detail, over the top dialog and faux vicious and corrupt characters. I hated The Killer Inside Me but enjoyed parts of The Getaway. But The Grifters was pretty impressive. Roy Dillon is an undercover conman who is trying to escape from the incestuous clutches of his mother Lily
As a grifter, Roy learnt from the best with his mother who was a master of the long con. For Roy, the short con has been prosperous, however its not without perils as we're shown quite early on in the story. It's this incident which brings back his mother, Lilly, and kicks off a chain of events which culminates in an ending nothing short of spectacular.In order to reinstate his deteriorating health, Lilly commissions home nurse Carol which serves as a means to demonstrate Roy's mothers need to
I find myself quite surprised at having never before read a Jim Thompson novel, I've known who he was and I've seen a lot of the movies based on his work, I've even owned a handful of his books for at least a year but still it took the pulp fiction group choosing it as the June read for me to actually pick one up.Thompson has this reputation for being beyond dark, holding up a circus mirror to life that only reflects the ugly, uncomfortable and depressing and that is why I've found myself
I saw the movie all those years ago and thought it was amazing. Blew my mind. I had no idea it was based on a book. In my defense it was 1990. I was deep into my fantasy only phase. I am glad to have read the "source" material. I think it is darker than the movie. That is why books tend to be better, we get into the characters heads. I felt as I was reading there was a timeless quality. It could take place at almost anytime in history. People are people. My only issue with the book was Carol. I
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