Sheriff Nick Corey presents himself as a genial fool, simplistic, over-accommodating, and harmless to a fault, given he is Pottsville's sole lawman. The story takes place about the time of the Russian Revolution, in 1917-1918.
He lives in Pottsville which has a population of "1280 souls". 1280 is the first-person narrative of Nick Corey, the listless sheriff of Potts County, the "47th (out of 47) largest county in the state". NPR's Stephen Marche described it as Thompson's "true masterpiece, a preposterously upsetting, ridiculously hilarious layer cake of nastiness, a romp through a world of nearly infinite deceit." Plot He has a cynical view of the town he lives in and sees his duty as keeping up a thin veneer of respectability that allows everyone else to act as illicitly.Ĭritical reception has been largely positive. Set in the fictional town of Pottsville, Texas during the early 1900s, the novel follows Nick Corey, a seemingly dim-witted sheriff whose pleasant exterior hides a scheming, psychopathic personality. 1280 is a crime novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1964.
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