Heed the thunder / Jim Thompson ; [introduction by James Ellroy].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage crime/Black Lizard

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inheritance and succession--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Nebraska--Fiction.

Nebraska.

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:

ix, 297 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

Summary:

Old Lincoln Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Harry Morales.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has raised stamp on half title page: "Library of Harry Morales HM".

Other Format:

Online version: Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977. Heed the thunder.

ISBN:

0679740147

9780679740148

OCLC:

28708780

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