Jerome Weidman (1913–1998)
Forfatter af I Can Get it for You Wholesale
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Serier
Værker af Jerome Weidman
Too Early To Tell 5 eksemplarer
The Third Angel 4 eksemplarer
Word of mouth 4 eksemplarer
The lights around the shore 3 eksemplarer
The horse that could whistle "Dixie" and other stories 2 eksemplarer
A dime a throw and other stories 2 eksemplarer
Tenderlion 2 eksemplarer
Your Daughter Iris 2 eksemplarer
Chutzbah 2 eksemplarer
The Explorers 2 eksemplarer
Det ordner jeg 1 eksemplar
Fiorello! (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 4] 1 eksemplar
Others people's money 1 eksemplar
Lost Respects 1 eksemplar
קשת הפעמונים 1 eksemplar
Good Man, Bad Man [short story] 1 eksemplar
THE BARRY KRAMER SEQUENCES 3/3A fou,las,tif 1 eksemplar
Traveler's cheque 1 eksemplar
Slipping Beauty 1 eksemplar
My Aunt on Twelfth Street 1 eksemplar
Give me your love (Eton pocket-size books, E114) 1 eksemplar
"I, and I Alone" 1 eksemplar
Back Talk 1 eksemplar
The Tuxedos 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Weidman, Jerome
- Fødselsdato
- 1913-04-04
- Dødsdag
- 1998-10-06
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA (1930)
City College of New York
New York University Law School - Erhverv
- playwright
novelist
Medlemmer
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale af 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?… (mere)
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 57
- Also by
- 24
- Medlemmer
- 468
- Popularitet
- #52,559
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 45
