Ebook {Epub PDF} After Dark My Sweet by Jim Thompson

After Dark, My Sweet once again displays Jim Thompson as the undisputed master of American noir. The basis of James Foley's critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, Thompson's classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people all-too-easily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down/5(85).  · After Dark, My Sweet: Directed by James Foley. With Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern. An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions /10(K).  · After Dark, My Sweet once again displays Jim Thompson as the undisputed master of American noir. The basis of James Foley's critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, Thompson's classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people all-too-easily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but www.doorway.ru: Little, Brown and Company.

Director James Foley's movie version of Jim Thompson's pulp novel "After Dark, My Sweet" provides an intriguing insight into the lives of three characters who've all seen better times. Their profound feelings of loss, despair and defeat contribute significantly to the downbeat atmosphere of the piece and its steady pace also reflects. AFTER DARK, MY SWEET is a novel written by Jim Thompson in Kid Collins has escaped from a mental hospital. On his way south, he meets Fay, an alcoholic widow, and the no good Uncle Bud who proposed he take part in the kidnapping of the little Charles Vandermeer. Kid, desperately wanting to be loved by Fay, accepts but soon becomes suspicious. After Dark, My Sweet|Jim Thompson, Figures Of Light: Actors And Directors Illuminate The Art Of Film Acting|Carole Zucker, Living For God: Eighteenth-Century Dutch Pietist Autobiography (Pietist And Wesleyan Studies)|Fred Van Lieburg, Engineering Mechanics: Energy And Momentum Block 7: Solids (Course T)|T Course Team.

It seems that Jim Thompson's world of s down-and-outs, alcoholics, criminals, and the mentally disturbed all come together rather nicely in this short novel, 'After Dark, My Sweet'. The story can be encapsulated as: deranged ex-fighter meets alcoholic woman and her criminally minded ex-cop friend, with whom they all embark foolish on a big crime (no spoilers here). After Dark, My Sweet is a American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by James Foley and starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward. It is based on the Jim Thompson novel of the same name. After Dark, My Sweet is only my second exposure to Jim Thompson, but it's enough to make me realize that of all the man's talents - fascinating plotting, intriguing characters, a bleakly cynical worldview - none may be more fascinating than his ability to immerse you in the mind of disturbed, irrational, damaged men.