A Hell of a Woman. Jim Thompson and Thomas Ott.
In French, Softcover, in French, 304 pages, dimensions 14 x 1.6 x 19 cm, Baconnière edition 2022.
Frank Dillon, a small businessman in a "three-hundred-dollar store," has a heart of gold and a conscience of concrete. It is certainly not his fault if the whole of society, and the women at the head, plunge him into crime and dirty money. With a biting irony and exceptional psychological depth, this text by one of the pioneers of the American black novel plunges us into the mind of Frank Dillon and takes us very far... Superiorly illustrated by Thomas Ott, this large-format edition with vintage graphics presents this novel as if it were an American pulp-fiction from the 1950s. A central notebook offers an original biography of Jim Thompson signed by Markus Rottmann.
