Book what makes sammy run

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Budd Schulberg. Movie poster for the Schulberg-penned On The Waterfront. In the film, Terry Malloy Marlon Brando testifies against mob influence over the dockworkers union.

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The dog-eat-dog slum where Sammy started life, "a mangy puppy," had much to do with making him what he was, Mr. Schulberg believes. When you get a knife in your back blame the remediable evils of society, he says in effect, strengthen the guilds, wipe out poverty, and thus make this book into a historical novel, make it merely "a blueprint of a way of life that was paying dividends in America in the first half of the twentieth century.

As swiftly paced as a good movie, the novel probes at Hollywood, the frontier town of the big money, where, proportionately, there are more people getting swiftly rich and more people getting swiftly poor than in any other town in the world.

The writers' tables in the studio restaurants where no one feels he is doing justice to himself unless all of his remarks are gags; the triumphant parties at whatever club is the club of the season; the grapevine that spreads as though by magic the news of any success or failure. Alta Socio. En otros idiomas. Literatura en ingles. Literatura En otros idiomas Literatura en ingles. What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs.