I Took A Book: The Rosh Hashanah Confession

Jim Thompson's The Grifters makes me weak in the knee joints. His sentences, while mostly un-pretty, make me swoon just the same. Slithery, cranky, unsentimental—these are the adjectives that limn his characters de guerre and whom he deploys with an arsonist's ferocity in one superlative scene after another. I didn't mean to steal the copy [...:]