The Rip-Off (novel)
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| Author | Jim Thompson |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Publication date | 1989 |
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The Rip-Off is a crime novel by Jim Thompson.[1] The book was rejected for publication during Thompson's lifetime; the date of composition is assumed to be sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Thompson's health was in decline. Thompson died in 1977.
The Rip-Off was initially published as a heavily edited and abridged serial in The New Black Mask Quarterly in 1985.[2] The book version appeared four years later.
Plot[edit]
Britton Rainstar is deeply in love with a woman named Manuela Aloe and the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he comes.
References[edit]
- ^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Rip-Off: Jim Thompson (1989)". 9 September 2013.
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