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Roughneck

Paperback • 2014 • English

Roughneck

By Jim Thompson

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About the book

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHN...Show more

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ISBN

9780316403818

Publisher

Mulholland Books

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Roughneck

Format

Paperback

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