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| Title | : | The Grifters |
| Author | : | Jim Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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.Particularize Books To The Grifters
| Original Title: | The Grifters |
| ISBN: | 0316404055 (ISBN13: 9780316404051) |
| Characters: | Roy Dillon, Moira Langtry, Lilly, Bobo Justus |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 9897 Users | 437 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Grifters
A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as "marks", "suckers", or "gulls" (i.e., gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shillsWikipediaTo grift is to engage in petty swindling. Until this week I had never read The Grifters (1963), but had seen several times the film with Jon Cusack, Annette Bening, and Anjelica Huston and loved it, aAs 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
****1/2 The sharpest, most twisted, most Thompsonian of this recent run of Thompson novels I've delved into. L.A. noir with a vivid, sardonic sense of place, and an existentialism to rival the French batch with which Thompson simply must have been quite familiar.
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 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
Ok guys, here goes. I started to read The Grifters and got about 70 pages in until I began to wonder whether or not I was reading the right book. Like maybe it was a novelization of the movie (which I haven't seen)? Because not only did I love the two other Jim Thompson books I've read previously, but so many people are fans of this particular book and it couldn't possibly be the one I was reading, right? I was expecting an entertaining con man thriller at worst, or another masterpiece of noir
As much as I cling to the insurmountable brilliance of Raymond Chandler, there is no doubt that the master of existential crime fiction is Jim Thompson.His grasp and view of the human condition seems unnaturally sensitive and profound for someone who writes about such gritty environments populated by such edgy people.The Grifters is a fascinating tale about Roy Dillon's life of grifting at a significant turning point in his life. Within its limited number of pages we are led to first accept Roy'
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