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The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories

In these famous "Broadway" stories, Damon Runyon glamorized the spirit of a very special time and place. Populated by guys and dolls, show girls and gangsters, Runyon's world captured the imagination of a vast public "more than somewhat," as he would have put it. It is a world of sentiment and surprise, and above all, humor.

Runyon intorduced millions of readers to a milieu of colorful smalltime hoodlums and hustlers — the likes of Nathan Detroit, Harry the Horse and Nicely Johnson — and their "dolls," such as Dark Dolores, Madame La Gimp, and Miss Missouri Martin. Runyon described his characters in the inimitable idiom her adapted from real-life street talk.

Runyon's ever-present narrator serves as our eyes and ears, whether the scene is Broadway, the racetracks of Miami and Saratoga, football games in Ivy League New England, or even (in his Christmas fable, "The Three Wise Guys") Bethlehem (Pennsylvania).

Many readers know Runyon's work better from movies than from his writings — hardly surprising, considering that more than two dozen films have been made from his stories, including Guys and Dolls, The Lemon Drop Kid and Pocketful of Miracles from this collection. This volume once again makes available an outstanding selection of Runyon's hugely entertaining Broadway stories, many of them for the first time in paperback

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780688006259
  • Genres
  • humor, fiction
  • Release date
  • 1981