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Some Faces in the Crowd
Budd Schulberg
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Description for Some Faces in the Crowd
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404.
One of the most accomplished novelists and screenwriters of our time (What Makes Sammy Run?, On the Waterfront), Budd Schulberg is a master of the art of the short story, as he proved in his early collection Some Faces in the Crowd. The crowd is the American landscape: indelible characters drawn coast-to-coast from the teeming streets of New York to tables at Hollywood's legendary nightclub, Ciro's. In these sparkling stories, Schulberg brings us vivid, restless people haunted by abrupt failure in the wake of rapid success. In "The Arkansas Traveler" he gives us Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes's down-home stories of Riddle, ... Read more
One of the most accomplished novelists and screenwriters of our time (What Makes Sammy Run?, On the Waterfront), Budd Schulberg is a master of the art of the short story, as he proved in his early collection Some Faces in the Crowd. The crowd is the American landscape: indelible characters drawn coast-to-coast from the teeming streets of New York to tables at Hollywood's legendary nightclub, Ciro's. In these sparkling stories, Schulberg brings us vivid, restless people haunted by abrupt failure in the wake of rapid success. In "The Arkansas Traveler" he gives us Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes's down-home stories of Riddle, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637725
SKU
V9781566637725
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About Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg has also written The Harder They Fall, Moving Pictures, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), Ringside, and Sparring with Hemingway, all published by Ivan R. Dee. He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.
Reviews for Some Faces in the Crowd
Accomplished screenwriter journeys inside the lives of restless and troubled characters...[with] colorful personalities.
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Schulberg is capable of...an O. Henry comeuppance....Puts [each] story in...milieu larger than...solipsism of its main characters.
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University
Newsday
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Schulberg is capable of...an O. Henry comeuppance....Puts [each] story in...milieu larger than...solipsism of its main characters.
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University
Newsday