Robert Polito recounts Jim Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered , with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic and casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson is an exemplary homage to an American original. | Savage Art by Robert Polito, Paperback | Indigo Chapters