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Original Title: | The Harder They Fall |
ISBN: | 1566631076 (ISBN13: 9781566631075) |
Edition Language: | English |
Budd Schulberg
Paperback | Pages: 357 pages Rating: 4.24 | 190 Users | 24 Reviews

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Title | : | The Harder They Fall |
Author | : | Budd Schulberg |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 357 pages |
Published | : | February 1st 1996 by Ivan R. Dee Publisher (first published 1947) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Sports. Novels |
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Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers. Mr. Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."--USA Today "The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself."--Arthur Miller. "Brilliant, witty, and amusing--the best book on fighting that I have read."--Gene Tunney.Rating Out Of Books The Harder They Fall
Ratings: 4.24 From 190 Users | 24 ReviewsPiece Out Of Books The Harder They Fall
Like all Budd Schulberg's novels this one is about artistic and ethical integrity as well as the very colourfully-depicted world of the story. In this case he's taken as his setting the seedier parts of the sport of boxing in 1940s America. Schulberg handles a large cast of characters and makes each so distinctive that you can feel their presence in the room with you.I laughed a laugh of horrified recognition when a former champ goes over his ghostwritten copy and starts telling the writer howDecided to read a second Schulberg and, holy fuck, this might be even better than "What Makes Sammy Run?"It's not like Schulberg is *unknown*, but how is he not considered an absolute titan of American literature? "Sammy" and this still hold up today better than just about any works from that era and both still manage to feel as sharp and fresh as if they were written just this week!
I remember reading What Makes Sammy Run by Schulberg as a college assignment many years ago. I loved the book then and read a few more times. The Harder They Fall was another treat in the same vein centered on the boxing racket in the 1940s. It was every bit as gripping as Sammy. There are numerous characters--mostly sleazy--except for a hapless Argentinian giant who despite his size will never be a successful boxer.I didn't like it quite as much but the only reason is boxing resonates less with

Not nearly as good as What Makes Sammy Run.Quotes:"Successful Harry Miniffs, pushing their way to the top of steel institutes, oil combines, film studios, fight monopolies; and unsuccessful Harry Miniffs, born with the will but not the knack to catch up with the high dollar that keeps tempting them on like a mechanical rabbit which the whippet can't catch unless the machine breaks down, and can't eat if it does.""Damn it, I was making a living, I wasn't robbing anybody; the lies I told were just
Good book part of our "hard boiled bogart novel/movie seriesWe are using this novel as part of the Novel/Movie series "Hard Boiled Bogart." The Bogart character is much more interesting in the book. And the book doesn't have the "happily ever after" ending in the movie.
A propulsive and extraordinarily bleak semi-roman à clef about the "career" of enormous heavyweight boxer Primo Carnera (here represented as "Toro Molina," an equally prodigious Argentine peasant), The Harder They Fall is among the best novels I've ever read. There's nothing tricky about what Schulberg is doing, and that's for the best: the prose is clean and tight, and the dialogue is razor-sharp. Not one of the characters in the book, from fast-talking PR man Eddie Lewis to greedy mobster Nick
Beaten to DeathBudd Schulberg wrote four novels, all downbeat. Of the four, the best is the least well known, The Disenchanted. This one is not as good, but is better than What Makes Sammy Run - which it resembles. As for On The Waterfront, it is so famous and close to the film that all objectivity is impossible.Schulberg was a movie brat, the son of a top executive, but he is no slouch or beneficiary of nepotism. He is a very accomplished writer, and in this tale of Toro Molina, the Primo
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