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A Hell of a Woman

On sale

22nd July 2010

Price: £4.49

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781409130130

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‘A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist . . . violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving . . . a classic American novelist’ Kirkus Reviews

A HELL OF A WOMAN is Jim Thompson’s version of an American CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, ‘Dolly’ Dillon, a door-to-door salesman, goes about the appalling business of murder without conscience, without remorse and without any hope of redemption, because of a woman . . .

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Bruce Springsteen
I don't read many books twice but Jim Thompson novels - due to their concise, dirty power, their relentless violence and purity - can always draw me in for a second time. Some of the most psychological crime writing ever done. I love James M Cain and Elmore Leonard but Jim Thompson holds a special place in my heart.
NEW YORK TIMES
Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none
Stephen King
Thompson captured the spirit of the age and the spirit of the twentieth century's latter half: emptiness, a feeling of loss in a land of plenty, of unease amid conformity, of alienation