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The Nothing Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)

by Jim Thompson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Crime/Black LIzard Ed edition (10 Feb 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375700315
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375700316
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 253,054 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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After a wartime injury leaves him with a bitter and incomplete life, Clinton Brown turns to drinking as his sole consolation and then to the destruction of those who make the mistake of invading his lonely world.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Emancipated Emasculation, 29 Jun 1999
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Despite a contrived "happy" ending forced on by the original publisher (see Savage Art, Bio of Jim Thompson), Nothing Man remains a harrowing look into the dementia of lost manhood. It also serves to indict the politics behind journalism and police corruption. Each of its 24 "mini"- chapters ends on a jolting surprise or revelation, making it a fast page-turner. I first read Thompson 8 years ago, and he's remained one of my top three or four favorites ever since -- along with Chuck Palahnuik, Herbert Selby Jr., and Seth Morgan. If you like your fiction hard-edged, suspensefully-plotted and with touches of dark hilarity -- go for the Nothing Man and the rest of the Thompson canon.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A dark and twisting exploration of one man's haunted mind., 18 April 1998
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In a small California town lives an ace newspaper reporter with a secret so terrible that only alcohol can hide the pain. It's a secret that so shames, disgraces and angers him that he'll do anything to keep it hidden-- even kill. Or will he? In one of his finer novels, Thompson makes masterful use of an unreliable narrator who may or may not have committed the murders he's confessing to. An intense and page-turning look at one miserable man, capped off with an ending that will stun you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A singular crime novel, 21 Nov 1997
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Although "The Killer Inside me" and "Pop. 1280" are better known, this novel is one of Thompson's best as well. While most of his books have slack passages, this one is tight all the way through, and the character, a living metaphor, emobodies the idea of the book in every word and deed. The extreme toughness of this book is more subdued than other Thompson books, but that makes the effect of the novel that much more powerful. The richest of his novels.
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