Please try again. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. But there is also a real feel for small-town life, a clearheaded, populist view of American economic imperatives, and an endearing playfulness that does not survive in the somber later Thompson. Please try again. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. It's slightly different than the other Thompson books I have read (the Getaway, the killer inside, pop 1280) in that crime does not really play a central part. A Swell-Looking Babe (Mulholland Classic), After Dark, My Sweet (Mulholland Classic). This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Readers familiar with Thompson's early life will recognize the autobiographical underpinnings of this book. Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK, Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost, Dispatch to this address when you check out. Young Robert Dillon is a stand-in for the author and Edie is a dead ringer for Thompson's mother, Birdie. Great book, great noir writer. Unable to add item to List. So, Grant Fargo argues to his grandfather Lincoln, it's perfectly all right that he's desperately in love with his first cousin, Bella-she's the only source of intelligent conversation for miles, and in a town like Verdon, it would be hard not to end up with a relative of one kind or another. Jim Thompson’s second novel Heed the Thunder is a sprawling, multi-generational epic following the descent of the Fargo clan at the turn of the 19th century. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I'm a big fan of Jim Thompsons books and I try to get hold of them whenever I can. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Winding up in a Grand Guignol finish, this is very much a young man's book, full of uninhibited energy, mixing scenes that work with ones that emphatically don't, and demonstrating flashes of insight alongside crude tomfoolery. As the story begins, their daughter Edie Dillon and her young son Robert arrive from Oklahoma to live with them. As the story begins, their daughter Edie Dillon and her young son Robert arrive from Oklahoma to live with them. Please try again. After Dark, My Sweet (Mulholland Classic), A Swell-Looking Babe (Mulholland Classic), The Killer Inside Me (Mulholland Classic). After Dark, My Sweet (CRIME MASTERWORKS Book 37), The Blue Hammer (Lew Archer Series Book 18), Bright Orange for the Shroud: A Travis McGee Novel. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Heed the Thunder. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Please try again. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. In Heed the Thunder, one of Thompson's earlier works, Thompson's signature style collides with a sweeping picaresque of the American prairie, in a multigenerational saga that's one part Steinbeck, two parts Dostoyevsky, and all Jim Thompson. 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