The Getaway (novel)

The Getaway
First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Signet
Publication date	1958
Media type	Print

The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect a bank robbery, but there are things he has forgotten, a treacherous partner, his amateur criminal wife, and that there is no such thing as a clean getaway.

Film adaptations

The novel has been adapted into films twice. The 1972 film version of The Getaway starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.^[1] The 1994 film version of The Getaway starred Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.^[2]

References

1 2 Canby, Vincent (December 20, 1972). "The Getaway (1972) Thief and Wife in 'Getaway'". The New York Times.
1 2 James, Caryn (February 11, 1994). "The Getaway (1994) Reviews/Film; In the Tire Tracks Of Another Sultry Pair".

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (1946) Nothing More Than Murder (1949) The Killer Inside Me (1952) Cropper's Cabin (1952) Recoil (1953) The Alcoholics (1953) Savage Night (1953) Bad Boy (1953) The Criminal (1953) The Golden Gizmo (1954) Roughneck (1954) A Swell-Looking Babe (1954) A Hell of a Woman (1954) The Nothing Man (1954) After Dark, My Sweet (1955) The Kill-Off (1957) Wild Town (1957) The Getaway (1958) The Transgressors (1961) The Grifters (1963) Pop. 1280 (1964) Texas By the Tail (1965) South of Heaven (1967) Child of Rage (1972) King Blood (1973) Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988) The Rip-Off (1989)

Films	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Kill-Off (1990) The Grifters (1990) The Getaway (1994) Hit Me (1996) This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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