num_pages: 560
description: 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a death by swallowing mattress stuffing. Not a head you'd want, though you might envy the prose. A great biography' Brian Case, Time Out
language: English
title: Savage Art : Biography of Jim Thompson
titlecomplete: Savage Art : Biography of Jim Thompson
genres: Mystery, Pulp, Biography, History, Crime, Noir, Psychology, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature
ratings_count: 584
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Critical Work, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Critical/Biographical Work, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Serpents Tail