Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
10 best books like Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Robert Polito): Quicksand, What You See in the Dark, Leave Her to Heaven, The Night of the Hunter, The Wycherly Woman, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories, A Carnivore's Inquiry, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Soft
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0141181273 |
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable...
| Author | Manuel Muñoz |
| ISBN | 1565125339 |
The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the...
This classic bestselling novel about a man who encounters a woman whose power to destroy is as strong as her power to love evokes Hemingway in its naturalistic portrayal of elemental forces in both nature and humanity.
Ellen’s beauty was radiant, and Harland had been so struck with...
| Author | Davis Grubb |
| ISBN | 1596542292 |
Inspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his murders of two widows and three children. This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for...
| Author | Ross Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0375701443 |
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's...
| Author | Virginia Spencer Carr |
| ISBN | 0820325228 |
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0385721005 |
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
| Author | Sabina Murray |
| ISBN | 0802142001 |
Twenty-three year old Katherine has just left Italy for New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She strikes up an affair with an older Russian �migr� novelist met on the subway and moves into his apartment. But her allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical...
| Author | Andrew Wilson |
| ISBN | 1582344116 |
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.
For...
| Author | Rupert Thomson |
| ISBN | 2253153184 |
At first glance, the thrillers of British author Rupert Thomson seem to have nothing in common except the expansiveness of his imagination and the lucid radiance of his writing. Air & Fire is about a group of French people sent to California at the end of the 19th century to build a church. The Insult...
