Unjustly NeglectedFormat:Kindle EditionWell maybe not "neglected". People who have read pre-war Depression-era American fiction know this book. Heck, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald knew this book. People who treasure "New York business noir" movies and plays, and the books they're based on, fr...
I don't know how I came across this book but I could not put it down. It is about a young immigrant teenager in the Lower East Side of New York. It is told without sentimentality. It does not have any imposed shaping or sense of an organized fictional plot to "get somewhere" or teach something. I...
With very little regard for other vehicles on the street, totally absorbed in only one problem: finding a parking place. By the time we reached the hospital I was all right. That is to say, I was no longer shaking. How I felt was another matter. A matter in which I took no pleasure. But at least ...
25. I GOT OUT OF THE CAB in front of the house and paid the driver. Then I picked up the heavy bundle and went upstairs. Just as I let myself in with my key, the phone in the foyer began to ring. Before I could answer it, Mrs. Herman came pattering out of the bedroom and saw me. “Oh, it’s Mr. Bog...