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Damon Runyon Favorites

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178912672X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Damon Runyon Favorites written by Damon Runyon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MASTER OF THE MAIN STEM! Here are some stories by Damon Runyon—the man who, according to Walter Winchell, knows more about the Roaring Forties than any other writing man. Included are many of the stories that have made him famous. There are “Little Miss Marker,” “The Hottest Guy in the World,” and “Madame La Gimp,” who went Hollywood and became the celebrated Lady for a Day. You’ll enjoy meeting some of Mr. Runyon’s friends, socially. You’ll like Harry the Horse and Spanish John and Little Isadore—hard characters, perhaps, but they would be hurt if you called them kidnapers. Then there’s Big False Face, the Beer Baron. The police sent him to college at a place called Auburn, N. Y., and he also did post-graduate work at Ossining and Dannemora. And you’ll meet Princess O’Hara and Goldberg, her horse, named after a guy who runs a delicatessen store on Tenth Avenue, and Last Card Louie, and The Brain himself. A veritable banquet is contained in these pages for all those who like their Runyon straight.

A Treasury of Damon Runyon

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Damon Runyon written by Damon Runyon and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Damon Runyon

Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Laurel
ISBN 13 : 9780440505020
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Damon Runyon written by Jimmy Breslin and published by Laurel. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the exuberant biography of the best known and most colorful newspapercolumnist of the 1920s and '30s by one of the best-known and most colorful newspaper columnists of today, Jimmy Breslin.

Guys and Dolls and Other Stories

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780141188331
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Guys and Dolls and Other Stories written by Damon Runyon and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. 'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this'.

More Than Somewhat

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446549089
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book More Than Somewhat written by Damon Runyon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of Damon Runyon's often simultaneously hilarious, sentimental, and horrifying short stories. Full of memorable characters and masterfully composed narrative, these short stories constitute a wonderful addition to any personal library, and are not to be missed by discerning collectors of Runyon's work. The stories contained herein include: Beach of Promise, Romance in the Roaring Forties, Dream Street Rose, The Old Doll's House, Blood Pressure, The Bloodhounds of Broadway, Tobias the Terrible, The Snatching of Bookie Bob, The Lily of St. Pierre, Earthquake, and more. Alfred Damon Runyon (1880 – 1946) was an American newspaperman and author, best remembered for his short stories about the world of Broadway in New York City that resulted from the Prohibition era. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Damon Runyon Favorites

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Damon Runyon Favorites written by Damon Runyon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Got the Horse Right Here

Author : Joseph James Reisler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493052217
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book I Got the Horse Right Here written by Joseph James Reisler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that “There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings and goings of the Manhattan night crowd.” This was just the tonic Runyon needed to emerge from his malaise. Runyon didn’t just cover the great races and which horse won: he would get to the track days before and roam along the backstretch, speaking with the trainers, the gamblers, the rich owners, and the wise guys, many of which became model characters in his fiction and in the musical Guys and Dolls. This book collects the best of Runyon’s horse racing columns to 1936, when he moved on to other beats.

Snatching of Bookie Bob

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780146000584
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Snatching of Bookie Bob written by Damon Runyon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of the Ex-tanks

Author : Clarence Louis Cullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Ex-tanks written by Clarence Louis Cullen and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)

Author : James McBride
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521672X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club) written by James McBride and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.

Windward Passage

Author : Jim Nisbet
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468302981
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Windward Passage written by Jim Nisbet and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Nisbet is a cult favorite in Europe and it's easy to see why. He's "a lot more than just good . . . his style has overtones of Walker Percy's smooth southern satin, but his characters--losers, grifters, con men--hark back to the days of James M. Cain's twisted images of morality," writes the Toronto Globe-Mail. In the tradition of Jim Thompson and Damon Runyon, Jim Nisbet is too good to miss and Windward Passage is a masterpiece that raises the bar even for a master like Nisbet. In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to international conspiracy. With verve and humor to match the Illuminati Trilogy, Nisbet has fashioned an engaging facsimile of our modern world, albeit with snappier dialogue, amped-up technology, and even more clearly stated political prejudices. "Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved," writes Germany's Die Welt. Pick up Windward Passageand see why.

Three Wise Guys

Author : Scott Alan Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881457940
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Three Wise Guys written by Scott Alan Evans and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Eve, 1932. Three New York wise guys on the run from a hotheaded racketeer journey from a Manhattan speakeasy to a swanky Long Island mansion to a ramshackle barn in Pennsylvania, inadvertently spreading holiday cheer everywhere they go. Based on two short stories by Damon Runyon (GUYS AND DOLLS), this effervescent comedy fizzes with laughter and heart. "Funny, sweet, and thoroughly charming... The voices here are unalloyed, cartoon New York, with a 'guys and dolls' locution that earns laughs as much from sentence structure as from the jokes themselves. In Runyon's universe, unlawful activities are mitigated by a deep but grudging moral code. And his characters, like all good gangsters, occasionally break out into impeccable barbershop harmonies." The New Yorker

Money from Home

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Money from Home written by Damon Runyon and published by New York : F.A. Stokes. This book was released on 1935 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Runyon on Broadway

Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Runyon on Broadway written by Damon Runyon and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Part of Our Time

Author : Murray Kempton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175441
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Part of Our Time written by Murray Kempton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with, and in many cases were destroyed by the myth of revolution. What he calls the “ruins and monuments of the Thirties” include Paul Robeson, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, the Hollywood Ten, the rebel women Elizabeth Bentley and Mary Heaton Vorse, and the labor leaders Walter Reuther and Joe Curran.

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0345802985
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy, to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. • “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: - Unscrupulous Santas - Crimes of Christmases Past and Present - Festive felonies - Deadly puddings - Misdemeanors under the mistletoe - Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.

Augie’s Secrets

Author : Neal Karlen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518977
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Augie’s Secrets written by Neal Karlen and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls.” Star Tribune “Deliciously snappy.” American Jewish World “Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie’s straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie’s.” MinnPost “Augie’s Secrets is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich.” Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920–1936