Jerome Weidman (1913–1998)
Auteur de I Can Get it for You Wholesale
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Œuvres de Jerome Weidman
Too Early To Tell 5 exemplaires
The Third Angel 4 exemplaires
Word of mouth 4 exemplaires
The lights around the shore 3 exemplaires
The horse that could whistle "Dixie" and other stories 2 exemplaires
A dime a throw and other stories 2 exemplaires
Tenderlion 2 exemplaires
Your Daughter Iris 2 exemplaires
Chutzbah 2 exemplaires
The Explorers 2 exemplaires
Det ordner jeg 1 exemplaire
Fiorello! (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 4] 1 exemplaire
Others people's money 1 exemplaire
Lost Respects 1 exemplaire
קשת הפעמונים 1 exemplaire
Good Man, Bad Man [short story] 1 exemplaire
THE BARRY KRAMER SEQUENCES 3/3A fou,las,tif 1 exemplaire
Traveler's cheque 1 exemplaire
Slipping Beauty 1 exemplaire
My Aunt on Twelfth Street 1 exemplaire
Give me your love (Eton pocket-size books, E114) 1 exemplaire
"I, and I Alone" 1 exemplaire
The Death of Dickie Draper and nine other stories 1 exemplaire
Back Talk 1 exemplaire
The Tuxedos 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
America Writes: Learning English through American Short Stories (1997) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 2 (1954) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Weidman, Jerome
- Date de naissance
- 1913-04-04
- Date de décès
- 1998-10-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA (1930)
City College of New York
New York University Law School - Professions
- playwright
novelist
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale par 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?… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 57
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 467
- Popularité
- #52,672
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 45
