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Author: Jimmy Breslin
Publisher: Laurel
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780440505020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Damon Runyon
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Clark
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortraits of Runyon's friends and acquaintances are interspersed with the details of his private life and quotations from his writings to provide a revealing biography of the American journalist and author and a chronicle of his time.
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780141188331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlick, 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'.
Author: D. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-04-18
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1403973504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images of New York City culture, including our interest in the demi-monde and underworld that explains in part the success of The Godfather films and The Sopranos . In his lively and exuberant chapters that include a panoramic view of New York City between the World Wars - with a focus on its colourful nightlife - Schwarz examines virtually every facet of Runyon's career from sports writer, daily columnist, trial reporter, and Hollywood figure to the author of the still widely-read short stories that were the source of the Broadway hit Guys and Dolls . As part of his discussion of Runyon's art and the artistry of Runyon's fiction, Schwarz skilfully examines the special language of the Broadway stories known as 'Runyonese', and explains how 'Runyonese' has become an adjective for describing flamboyant behaviour.
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2011-04-20
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1446549089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Damon Runyon
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Mosedale
Publisher: Richard Marek Publishers
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Trustin Howard
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: 2010-07-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0761851313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality and Runyon was a popular Broadway personality, best known for having written the show 'Guys and Dolls.'
Author: Joseph James Reisler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-04-25
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1493052217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurned 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.
