Jim Thompson
Jordi Bernet (Illustrations)
«“The second thing I'm gonna do,” I said, “is somethin’ I should have done long ago. I’m gonna give you both barrels of this shotgun right in your stupid, stinking guts.” And I did it. It didn't quite kill him, although he was dying fast.»
Nick Corey is the sheriff of Potts County, a town in the American south where some one thousand two hundred and eighty souls scrape by. Nick reveals himself to be cowardly and lazy: he is an immoral man who harbors no regrets, and raised in a backward, racist, and misogynistic environment, he acts with cruelty and perversity, and will let others take the blame for his crimes.
A masterpiece, Pop. 1280 encapsulates Jim Thompson’s vision of power and its corruption of society. The images from the celebrated artist Jordi Bernet, as powerful as they are suggestive, immortalize a work that is unique in its genre.
See the author's biography (in Spanish)
See the illustrator's biography (in Spanish)
Nick Corey is the sheriff of Potts County, a town in the American south where some one thousand two hundred and eighty souls scrape by. Nick reveals himself to be cowardly and lazy: he is an immoral man who harbors no regrets, and raised in a backward, racist, and misogynistic environment, he acts with cruelty and perversity, and will let others take the blame for his crimes.
See the illustrator's biography (in Spanish)
18 x 26,5 cm; 224 pp. Hardback with jackets | ISBN: 978-84-941041-2-1
