stroke of a pen of Jim Thompson
the early twentieth century, Nick Corey is the sheriff of Potts County tiny: only 1280 souls (in fact, even less because, as one of the leading states in number are also included and these niggas, you know, have no souls) . Nick Corey seems to have only one purpose in life: to do the job with as little effort as possible, avoiding the calls of his fellow citizens and especially to the reproaches of his wife, a real witch, and her late brother's antics. Nick Corey is a perfect idiot, or at least it is considered by all the people of Pottsville, and by his own family. Just when readers are now convinced we are faced with an idiot harmless, here is the short circuit: Nick Corey is not slow on the uptake, in fact it never was, is simply convinced that to live in peace, his job is to play the role that was assigned. Soon everyone will realize, at its expense, how much Nick Corey is definitely not "harmless". "clean slate" ("Pop. 1280" in the original) is considered, rightly, Jim Thompson's masterpiece (although, personally, I still prefer "Devils in women ). A major player in dashed a wonderful way, the merger of Lou Ford, the sheriff serial killer "The murderess in me" and William Collins, the former boxer star of "It 's already dark sweetness" and a plot to say the least exciting, in which all the pieces end up onto each other, to perfection.
novel is a frightening, chilling, how often are the novels of Thomas, an author can describe and outline the most hidden and fearful of the human soul, one of the few writers able to "scare" really.
"clean slate", in fact, is a novel by dialogues cruel, against which modern cinema can only be strongly debtor (after reading the one between the protagonist and the old black Uncle John, we can not think of movie dialogue of Tarantino or the Coen brothers, for example).
Tavernier in 1981 (moving the story from Texas to Senegal) directed the film with the same name Noiret star.
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