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A Hell of a Woman is a 1954 novel by Jim Thompson. It has been adapted for the screen by Alain Corneau and Georges Pérec as Série noire, released in 1979. Plot. Frank "Dolly" Dillon hates his job of working collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores. He loathes his wife, Joyce, and has an account balance that barely lets him pay the bills each month.
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A Hell of a Woman is a thriller. Exactly what you don't need, dear reader, is a reviewer spoiling the hell out of your reading pleasure by giving away too much. Thus, I'll take a shuffle to overriding themes: MUCKRAKING JIM The publisher blurb states, "In A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant personality ...
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Mar 29, 2018 · “A Hell of a Woman” was a Lion Books 1954 mid-career effort from Thompson. It’s a 200-page, first-person con-man story told from the perspective of Frank “Dolly” Dillon, a door-to-door salesman working for Pay-E-Zee - essentially a walking department store peddling goods on credit installment plans to rural rubes.
Mar 1, 2012 · A Hell of a Woman is another typical twisted crime novel from the one of those rare authors who turns pulp fiction into literary magic. Although for me not as powerful or spellbinding as The Killer Inside Me, this novel still manages to shock and impress like much of Jim Thompson’s dark crime work.
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Oct 3, 1990 · A Hell of a Woman. Paperback – October 3, 1990. by Jim Thompson (Author) 4.0 259 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned ...
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Aug 13, 2014 · A hell of a woman by Thompson, Jim. Publication date 1990 Publisher Vintage Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language ...
Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that b...
