| After Dark, My Sweet Lib/E Contributor(s): Thompson, Jim (Author), Collins, Kevin T. (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1619690128 ISBN-13: 9781619690127 Publisher: Hachette Book Group OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.2" W x 7.1" (0.92 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: William Kid Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution. One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young widow. She is smart and decent-at least when she's sober. Soon Collins finds himself involved in a kidnapping scheme that goes drastically wrong almost before it even begins. Because the kid they've picked up isn't like other kids: he's diabetic and without insulin, he'll die. Not the safest situation for Collins, a man for whom stress and violence have long gone hand-in-hand. After Dark, My Sweet once again displays Jim Thompson as the undisputed master of American noir. The basis of James Foley's critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, Thompson's classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people all-too-easily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Jim: - Jim Thompson (1906-1977) 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. He eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals, and two screenplays, for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory. An outstanding crime writer, he created a world of fiction rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, he was both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir such as The Killer inside Me, After Dark My Sweet, and The Grifters. Collins, Kevin T.: -Kevin T. Collins, an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator, is an actor, singer, recording artist, and director who can be seen Off-Broadway, on television, and in films. |