Jerome Weidman (1913–1998)
Autore di I Can Get it for You Wholesale
Sull'Autore
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Serie
Opere di Jerome Weidman
Too Early To Tell 5 copie
The Third Angel 4 copie
Word of mouth 4 copie
The lights around the shore 3 copie
A dime a throw and other stories 2 copie
Tenderlion 2 copie
Your Daughter Iris 2 copie
Chutzbah 2 copie
The Explorers 2 copie
Det ordner jeg 1 copia
Others people's money 1 copia
Lost Respects 1 copia
קשת הפעמונים 1 copia
Good Man, Bad Man [short story] 1 copia
Traveler's cheque 1 copia
Slipping Beauty 1 copia
My Aunt on Twelfth Street 1 copia
"I, and I Alone" 1 copia
Back Talk 1 copia
The Tuxedos 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Weidman, Jerome
- Data di nascita
- 1913-04-04
- Data di morte
- 1998-10-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA (1930)
City College of New York
New York University Law School - Attività lavorative
- playwright
novelist
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Recensioni
I Can Get It for You Wholesale di Jerome Weidman
a schmuck from '50's NY colorfully describes his misdeeds
Harry Bogen, from I Can Get It For You Wholesale, is back on Seventh Avenue and he's swindling a loan shark. This time he actually gets his, but good. He's left flat broke, wanted by the law and his sweet Jewish mother dies. The guy is so loathsome I was almost happy to see it. Not his mother dying though, that was too much. Published in 1938. Glad it's over on the whole. Now I can get on to other things.
Set in New York's garment district, written in 1937. The main character, Harry Bogen, is a total schmuck. The sexism and sexual harassment in this book are amazing. He'd fire any secretary that wouldn't put out in a heartbeat. He makes quite a lot of money running crooked businesses and spends it all on shiksas. His good Jewish mother wants him to marry a nice Jewish girl, Ruthie Rivkin, but Harry seems to be determined to rid himself of all signs of his jewishness, to the point where he even calls his business partner a heeb at one point. He is the definition of unscrupulousness, incarnate. I must say, after I got used to it, I really started to enjoy the language though. He has an amazing, over-the-top, comic dialogue style that makes the book really move. They apparently made it into a musical with Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould in 1962, before they were famous. Now I'm reading the sequel What's In It For Me?… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 57
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 468
- Popolarità
- #52,559
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 45
