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Now and on Earth

by Jim Thompson
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San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard — just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe — just maybe — there's a chance it'll all get better.
Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.
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Series: Mulholland Classic Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780316203562
  • Release date: May 1, 2012

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780316195997
  • Release date: May 1, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780316195997
  • File size: 1117 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2012

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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subjects

Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller

Languages

English

San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard — just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe — just maybe — there's a chance it'll all get better.
Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.
Expand title description text
Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller