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| Title | : | The Grifters |
| Author | : | Jim Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 2014 by Mulholland Books (first published January 1st 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Noir. Thriller |
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To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character. Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother. THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's critically-acclaimed film of the same name.Be Specific About Books Concering The Grifters
| Original Title: | The Grifters |
| ISBN: | 0316404055 (ISBN13: 9780316404051) |
| Characters: | Roy Dillon, Moira Langtry, Lilly, Bobo Justus |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) |
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As a grifter, Roy learnt from the best with his mother who was a master of the long con. For Roy, the short con has been prosperous, however its not without perils as we're shown quite early on in the story. It's this incident which brings back his mother, Lilly, and kicks off a chain of events which culminates in an ending nothing short of spectacular.In order to reinstate his deteriorating health, Lilly commissions home nurse Carol which serves as a means to demonstrate Roy's mothers need toThe characters are laced with just enough humanity for you to feel really bad for humanity. The writing was perfectly tuned. The plot was sharp. The characters are all twisted, warped and beautiful. I haven't wanted a shower so bad since I watched a movie by David Lynch. Hell is Los Angeles at night. The ONLY thing that would make this book better is if Gustave Doré or William Blake could have done the illustrations.
Ok guys, here goes. I started to read The Grifters and got about 70 pages in until I began to wonder whether or not I was reading the right book. Like maybe it was a novelization of the movie (which I haven't seen)? Because not only did I love the two other Jim Thompson books I've read previously, but so many people are fans of this particular book and it couldn't possibly be the one I was reading, right? I was expecting an entertaining con man thriller at worst, or another masterpiece of noir
It was well written & read, but I never wanted to listen to it because it was so depressing. Everyone sucked & I couldn't find a character to connect to, to root for. Something bad would happen to one of them & my mind just said, "OK, now wander off & die, jerk." They didn't. They kept hanging around being miserable, living for no other reason than dying would have put me out of their misery, so I stopped about 2/3 of the way through. Haven't missed it & don't wonder what
Roy Dillon makes his living off the short con--he bilks guys in bars out of their drinking money and little shops out of about twenty dollars a pop. None of it sounds like much, but as he explains, it has low-to-no overhead and it all mounts up. The problem with even the short con, however, is that it usually requires its operators stay mobile, always clearing out of one town for the police catch on. Roy doesn't like the way that drains his funds, however, so he's spent years building up a
A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as "marks", "suckers", or "gulls" (i.e., gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shillsWikipediaTo grift is to engage in petty swindling. Until this week I had never read The Grifters (1963), but had seen several times the film with Jon Cusack, Annette Bening, and Anjelica Huston and loved it, a
Crazy people, that I hope I never run into in real life. If I do, I am turning the other way and running! This author's works are kind of addictive. Already looking forward to the next one.
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