----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Lochte" <
dlock@ix.netcom.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001
5:00 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: RE:Stone For Danny Fisher
>
> As far as I can remember, A Stone For Danny Fisher
is about a young guy
from
> the wrong side of the tracks who gets involved in
crime. A James T.
> Farrell-like, gritty street-corner study, very much
unlike Robbins' later
> romans a clef (roman a clefs?). The Presley film was
set in New Orleans,
but
> the book took place in New York, or maybe Chicago.
Not much singing in the
> book either. In a long ago interview, Robbins told
me it was his favorite
> novel. May also have been his first.
>
> Dick Lochte
It's certainly my favorite Harold Robbins novel, though I
like The Dream Merchants, too, which is about the early days
of the movie industry. I haven't read these books in years,
but it seems to me they almost bordered on being hardboiled
in places. (Yes, it's a stretch, I know. Maybe I should read
them again just to see how much of one.)
Best, James
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