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Texas by the tail / Jim Thompson.
LIBRA - Special PS3539.H6733 T48 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977.
- Series:
- Vintage crime/Black Lizard
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Morales, Harry (autograph) (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- Mitch Corley has a girlfriend with expensive tastes and a ruthless wife who refuses to become an "ex" without major compensation. He needs big money and he needs it fast. Which makes Texas Mitch's natural destination, since nowhere are rich men more inclined to stake huge sums on a roll of the dice. The only problem is that Texans are sore losers--and they have cruel and ingenious ways of getting back at anyone who cheats them. Texas by the Tail is a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Harry Morales with raised stamp: "Library of Harry Morales".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977. Texas by the tail.
- ISBN:
- 0679740112
- 9780679740117
- OCLC:
- 30400123
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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