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The Disenchanted
Allison & Busby 2013; US$ 10.19A portrait of an age of both dazzling spirit and bitter disillusionment, based on the last drunken days of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1920s: a golden age, and Manley Halliday is a golden figure. Lauded by the critics, this great writer of the decade has everything - beauty, brilliance, wealth, and a strikingly lovely wife. But years later, in the... more...
The Harder They Fall
Allison & Busby 2013; US$ 10.19He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don?t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be playwright, never expected to make his living writing lies. But that?s precisely what he does to pay his rent: Eddie is a manipulator of headlines, an inventor of hyperbole,... more...
On the Waterfront
Allison & Busby 2013; US$ 10.19'I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody.' Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as 'the Gent', are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen's Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the waterfront with an iron fist. If you want... more...
What Makes Sammy Run?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times?from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that... more...
Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 17.95Including stories from Schulberg's early work at Dartmouth in the '30s to his more recent pieces, here is a haunting collection of short stories that largely deal with two of Schulberg's best-known themes: underdogs and Hollywood. more...
Ringside
Mainstream Publishing 2012; US$ 10.67Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg. Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago; draws a revealing portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its golden age; expertly places Joe... more...
Blood in My Coffee
Skyhorse Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95Best known as the Fight Doctor, Ferdie Pacheco has lived a dreamers life. Instead of finding success in just one career, Pacheco has excelled in numerous fields. Hes been a successful pharmacist, doctor, boxing cornerman, television commentator, screenwriter, author, artist, and more. Now the life of this extraordinary Renaissance man is... more...
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