Now & On Earth
Now and On Earth is a 1942 novel by Jim Thompson, it was his first published novel. Set in Los Angeles during the second world war, it is essentially a semi-autobiographical description of the author's life working in an airplane manufacturing plant during the war years and the frustrations he endured there and in his personal life at the time. Though later heralded as a powerful work of first person narration and working class and migrant class frustration, it recieved almost no attention at the time of its publication. With Thompson's subsequent popularity for his crime fiction, original editions of Now And On Earth fetch thousands of dollars from collectors. Even mere dustjackets of the book are known to net hundreds of dollars at auction. Though his later works would be signifigantly more praised, Now and On Earth remains a unique American author's powerful debut and is well regarded in the author's body of work.
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