Heed the Thunder
By: Jim Thompson ; introduction by James Ellroy.
Contributors: James Ellroy (Introduction)
Edition: Black Lizard edition
Series: Vintage Crime
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1 February 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780679740148
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; Nebraska -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.