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The stirring novel of a boy's poignant coming of age during the 1920s on Manhattan's Lower East Side When Benny Kramer's father came to the United States, he was hungry, broke, and ignorant. Handed a banana and told it was "American food," he scarfed it down, peel and all. By the time he died, he was no richer, but much wiser, and everything he learned he imparted to his son. Growing up on New York's Lower East Side between the wars, Benny's life...
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Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer's son Though his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous-not with a mistress, but with one of the city's finest doctors. Kramer plans to enlist him in a noble purpose: keeping his son out of Vietnam. The doctor won't provide this service to just anyone, but he and Benny have a mutual friend in the...
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A New York native looks back on his Lower East Side youth in a trilogy from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. After making a splash with his first novel, I Can Get It for You Wholesale-published in 1937 and praised by the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald-Jerome Weidman had a long and prolific career as a fiction writer and playwright. In the 1970s he published three wise, funny, and nostalgic novels...
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Meet one of the most unscrupulous businessmen in American literature-from a New York Times–bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. Set in Manhattan's garment district, Jerome Weidman's debut novel, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, was a scathing satire of capitalist greed as personified by the shameless scoundrel Harry Bogen. As relevant today as when they were first published in the 1930s, both novels are now available in a...
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Jerome Weidman's enduring classic novel about life in New York's cutthroat garment district Just south of Times Square, more than six thousand manufacturers of dresses are crammed into the few blocks that make up Manhattan's garment district. Their factories are cramped, noisy, and incredibly profitable-and Harry Bogen is going to take them for all they're worth. A classic conniver, he knows that it's easier, and a hell of a lot more fun, to turn...
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Reminiscing after his mother's death, Benny Kramer remembers the chaos and hardships of his youth, indelibly marked by a brief turn as a bootlegger For most of his life, Benny Kramer's mother was an inescapable presence in his life. But on the day of her death, her body disappears on its way from hospital to morgue. While scouring New York in search of her body, Benny remembers the first adventure his mother sent him on, fifty years before. At...
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