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Title: The Getaway by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0-679-73250-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: on the road to nowhere...
Comment: The Getaway is vintage Jim Thompson: a short, bleak story of 1950s down-and-outs, deadbeats and criminals. Much of his novels are heavy on punchy, "in your face" dialogue which would make fans of traditional fine literature cringe. It has a movie script feel about it which, for this reader, makes the story more intense.
In The Getaway we have a married pair of ex-cons making a getaway from a rather botched bank robbery. Neither person is pretty or especially likeable. Yet their desperate plight to make a getaway is fascinating ... and they go about matters in a very rough-handed fashion (cold-blooded murders abound). Yet in the end they come to the realization their getaway will not gain them any sense of happiness or closure. The ending (..no spoilers here) is most poignant. If our "Bonnie and Clyde wannabes" weren't such a heartless couple I'd almost feel sorry for them.
Bottom line: no, not Jim Thompson's best (which is The Killer Inside Me). But he was certainly on top form when he wrote The Getaway. Highly recommended.
(and no, I've never seen any film adaptation of The Getaway)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Crime Book
Comment: This book was my first foray into the books of famous pulp writer Thompson, although of course I've seen a few movies based on other work of his (The Grifters, After Dark My Sweet). This slim book tells a very simple tale about a bank heist, the falling out of thieves afterward, and their attempt to elude the police dragnet make it to the Mexican border, where a paradise awaits them. Simple enough, with just the right number of characters and complexity for the movies (which is why it's been made into one twice, first in 1972, then in 1993). It's all very fun to read, and you find yourself rooting for the husband and wife team of robbers to make it out...let's just say there's an unexpected ending which lifts the book out of the realm of pulp fiction, and into that of morality play. I plan on reading some more Jim Thompson.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sympathy for the damned
Comment: Jim Thompson's knack is to get me to feel sorry for the bad guy. Just like his other must reads, Pop. 1280 and The Killer Inside Me, I find my self rooting for the folks whom I find despicable in real life. I first read this about six years ago, and after I felt it was good but not as strong as Pop or Killer; now I rank it right up there with those classics. This quick read has one of the more intriguing endings, too.
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Title: The Grifters by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0679732489 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0679732497 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0679732519 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0679732470 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0679733973 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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