Roughneck - Jim Thompson

Category: Adults, Suspense, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Fictionalized Memoir Humor

Written by Jim Thompson
Read by Bob Walter
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Hachette Group
Date: August 2014
Length: 5hr 52mim

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber’s helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.

A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction’s most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir–or wildly entertaining tall tale–as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good.

The original was a poor quality Audible rip. I eliminates the preview at the end.