Im carmel, the owner of the teen romance book site mentioned. After dark, my sweet is a 1955 american crime novel by jim thompson. Michael crummeys sweetland is like a song of mourning. In his 1955 novel, after dark, my sweet, the narrator is kid collins, a onetime boxing phenom, who left the ring after he punched one opponent so hard that the guy never got up again.
His mental aberrations dont hinder the storytelling, rather they enhance it. Jason patric, rachel ward, bruce dern, rocky giordani, tom wagner, mike hagerty, james e. It is based on the 1955 jim thompson novel of the same name. After dark, my sweet mulholland classic kindle edition. Find books like after dark, my sweet from the worlds largest community of readers.
After dark, my sweet once again displays jim thompson as the undisputed master of american noir. The sweet girl by annabel lyon canadian writer annabel lyon has a special gift when it comes to time travel. However, i just saw this again and had t give it a mention. Collie patric is an exboxer who seems the perfect pawn to pull of a kidnapping planned by a sexy widow rachel ward and a copturnedcon man. Goodreads members who liked after dark, my sweet also liked. Her new novel the sweet girl carries us back to ancient greece, where a. The basis of james foleys critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, thompsons classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people alltooeasily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down. After dark my sweet soundtrack from 1990, composed by maurice jarre.
After dark, my sweet nude scenes 9 images and 1 video including appearances from rachel ward. After dark, my sweet is only my second exposure to jim thompson, but its enough to make me realize that of all the mans talents fascinating plotting, intriguing characters, a bleakly cynical worldview none may be more fascinating than his ability to immerse you in the mind of disturbed, irrational, damaged men. Funny how sometimes things that arent true are more true than the truth. After dark, my sweet, an album by julies haircut on spotify. When we say feed their alter egos, we mean, help them. Released by varese sarabande in 1990 vsd 5274 containing music from after dark, my sweet 1990. New fullcolour, 238page hardcover book about glamrock legends sweet. It differs from most thompson tales in that there are no real throw away chapters. Plot edit william collins is a former boxer with a deadly accident in his past. Sweet after dark is the sexiest route to take for men and women to feed their alter egos with class. I wondered why she was acting so friendly all of a sudden. After dark, my sweet 1990 tells their story as an inevitable progress toward failure and doom.
Collins has broken out of his fourth mental hospital and met a con man and a beautiful woman, whose plans for him include murder and kidnapping. Watch the full music video for candy girl taken from the upcoming film the new edition story. After dark, my sweet is one of the most coherent thompson novels ive read. This year well see three more film adaptations of thompsons work the grifters, the killoff and, first on deck, after dark, my sweet, which was published in 1955 but updated to the. In the opening flashback of michael crummeys sweetland, a newfoundlander in a boat. After dark, my sweet is a 1990 american neonoir crime thriller film directed by james foley and starring jason patric, bruce dern, and rachel ward. Sweetgirl, by travis mulhauser a story about violence, drug addiction and family dysfunction could have been too bleak, but travis. Affliction tackles the provocative subject of a fatal accident involving children, and its effect on a small community. After dark, my sweet jason patric rachel ward bruce dern 1990 an exboxer jason patric, a widow rachel ward and a con man bruce dern try a kidnap caper in a desert town.