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A Hell of a Woman is a 1954 novel by Jim Thompson. [1] [2] It has been adapted for the screen by Alain Corneau and Georges Pérec as Série noire, released in 1979.
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A Hell of a Woman is a hell of a book (sorry); it should be mentioned in the same breath as the Killer Inside Me and The Grifters. It features Thompson’s most unlikeable narrator, a door to door salesman/lowlife/grifter who is unrepentant in his misogyny and generally misanthropic worldview.
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Aug 13, 2014 · A hell of a woman. by. Thompson, Jim. Publication date. 1990. Publisher. Vintage Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
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Mar 1, 2012 · In A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks among his best work. Read more. Print length.
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Oct 3, 1990 · Like so many Thompson stories, it all starts with a woman – in this case, a young woman who “Dolly” Dillon meets when he’s trying to collect bills. She’s a woman in trouble, and Dillon keeps finding himself thinking about her and how to get her out – and if that means choosing her in favor of his wife, well, no great loss.
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A HELL OF A WOMAN is Jim Thompson's version of an American CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, 'Dolly' Dillon, a door-to-door salesman, goes about the appalling...