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Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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(1906 - 1977) James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory”). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, Thompson’s work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963). This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 so unlucky with love..., Jui 2 2003
Par lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
'A Hell of a Woman" clearly falls right into Jim Thompson's turf: where a somewhat psychotic loser falls in love with Ms Wrong, then getting himself in deep trouble, and finally realizes that once again he hasn't moved forward in life at all (..but rather is worse off than when he started). Like is famous/notorious "The Killer Inside Me", Jim Thompson makes clever us of first-person narration including little slivers of where our 'loser' tells us his inner thoughts. Very chilling.

Bottom line: good story, well-written, fine characterizations. No complaints.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Jim Thompson ain't so hot., Déc 18 2002
Par Carl F. Mclaren Jr. (Haines City, Florida USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
I read a couple of Jim Thompson's books recently and my opinion is that he is a mediocre writer. If you've read Catcher in the Rye and loved it you might like Thompson. He is a VERY poor man's Salinger. The stories are about really screwed up white trash trying to get through life. The good thing about these is they're short. Call me a peasant but I didn't like Catcher either !
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Noir Classic, A Bit Tame by Today's Standards, Mai 17 2002
Par Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
"A Hell of a Woman" is somewhat similar to another Jim Thompson classic, "The Killer Inside Me" in that it is a story of murder and mayhem told in the first person through the eyes of the killer. Like "Killer," Frank Dillon, the protagonist here, has deep rooted issues involving women. In fact, the woman of the title could be any of several he describes, including his hell-on-wheels wife. The plot is right out of classic noir, as Dillon hatches an elaborate double murder scheme in order to make a huge score, win the girl he loves and escape his small town life and cruddy job as a salesman working for an abusive boss. Things go awry, as they usually do in these tales, and Dillon has to resort to further violence in a vain attempt to keep his plans from unravelling.

The frank sexuality, gritty violence an unrepentant nature of the central character were probably quite a shock to readers when this book was first published in the early 1950s. It will, however, seem fairly tame to modern readers. A quick read at 185 pages, it is the novel equivilent of film noir from the era of its publication, and can be enjoyed the same way those films are today.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Crime and Punishment
Frank Dillon is working outside sales in the rain when a flash of lightening illuminates a woman in a window and thus begins one of Thompson's wildest novels. Read more
Publié le Mars 2 2002 par Paul Miller

4.0étoiles sur 5 One of Thompson's Best
Jim Thompson on women. That could follow the tile after a colon. As such, you, the lucky reader, are introduced to three women whose agendas and m.o. Read more
Publié le Déc 24 1999 par leper2000

5.0étoiles sur 5 a hard & fast suspense jewel
Jim Thompson & Larry Brown have at least one thing in common...happy endings and classic good guys are almost impossible to find in their books. Read more
Publié le Sep 23 1999 par Johnny Roulette (bconner1@mind...

5.0étoiles sur 5 Loved it! The book that made me a Jim Thompson fan!
I'd heard high-praise for Mr. Thompson's books--from Stephen King to James Ellroy--but it wasn't until I read A Hell of a Woman that I became a believer. Read more
Publié le Juil 23 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Hell of a Woman is wicked, wicked, wicked.
This novel deserves to be known as one of Thompson's best. Dolly Dillon may not appear to be as menacing as Lou Ford, but he is, if possible, more insane. Read more
Publié le Juil 10 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the best noir crime novels I have ever read.
The story's narrator Dolly Dillon is so exquisitely creepy. A Hell of a Woman is the type of book that leaves you feeling a bit disturbed when you finish reading. Read more
Publié le Jui 19 1999 par epravitz

5.0étoiles sur 5 Better than Cain
I think this is one of Thompson's best books. He may use the basic Cain formula, but he takes us a lot further inside the mind of his narrator; in fact, a little too far for... Read more
Publié le Mai 1 1999

2.0étoiles sur 5 DECENT FOR A PULP NOVEL BUT BELOW THOMPSON
This is one of the few letdowns I've had reading Jim Thompson. His typical razor sharp plot is more meandering and desparate in this retleeing of Crime And Punishment. Read more
Publié le Mars 14 1999

3.0étoiles sur 5 By the Numbers
It has all the elements that make a great noir classic, the babe with the femme fatale, the murder, the creepy main character, but it is not much more than your average crime... Read more
Publié le Janv. 30 1997

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