Including 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....
What 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 shove...
The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption. ( USA Today ). Toro Molina certainly looks the part. He's built like the Minotaur, but few would guess at the fear consuming the Argentine farmer and former circus performer after he's brought to...
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 ...
Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, ...
Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s -- a golden figure in a golden age -- who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the li...