The grifters
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New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Edition
1st Black Lizard/Vintage crime ed.
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
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Unknown
Edition
1st Black Lizard/Vintage crime ed.
Street Date
1111
Language
English

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"Originally published by Creative Arts Book Company in 1985"--T.p. verso.
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"To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character. Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother. THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's critically-acclaimed film of the same name"--
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Story of a con man, his mother, and his girlfriend, and the ways in which they prey on each other.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Thompson, J. (1990). The grifters (1st Black Lizard/Vintage crime ed.). Vintage Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977. 1990. The Grifters. Vintage Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977. The Grifters Vintage Books, 1990.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Thompson, Jim. The Grifters 1st Black Lizard/Vintage crime ed., Vintage Books, 1990.

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