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As a teenager, Danny Fisher had all he ever wanted a dog, a grown-up summer job, flirtatious relationships with older women and a talent for ruthless boxing that quickly made him a star in the amateur sporting world. But when Danny's family falls on hard times, moving from their comfortable home in Brooklyn to Manhattan's squalid Lower East Side, he is forced to leave his carefree childhood behind. Facing poverty and daily encounters with his violent, anti-Semitic neighbors, Danny must fight both inside and outside the ring just to survive.
As his boxing becomes legendary in the city's seedy underworld, packed with wiseguys and loose women, everyone seems to want a hand in Danny's success. Robbins's colorful, fast-talking characters evoke the rough streets of Depression-era New York City. Ronnie, a prostitute ashamed of how far she's fallen and desperately in need of friendship; Sam, a slick bookie who wants to profit from Danny's boxing talent; and Nellie, a beautiful but lonely girl who refuses to believe Danny is beyond redemption each of whom has a different vision of Danny's future will help steer his rocky course.
Gritty, compelling, and groundbreaking for its time, A Stone for Danny Fisher is a tale of ambition, hope, and violence set in a distinct and dangerous period of American history.--Goodreads
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Harold Robbins, History, Great Depression, Depression-era, 1925-1944, Historical, Boxing, Fighting, Adult, American, Fiction, Literature, Stories, Novels, Working class, Poverty, Family, Friendship, Crime, Boxers, Bookies, Trashy, Prostitutes, Erotica, Sex, Anger, Violence, Hope, Narrativa, Boxers (Sports), Fiction, sports, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, generalPlaces
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
August 7, 2007, Touchstone
Paperback
in English
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1416542841 9781416542841
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
August 2001, Robert Hale Ltd, The Crowood Press
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0709069898 9780709069898
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
September 1986, Pocket Books, a div. of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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in Serbian
- 1986 Reissue of Pkt Bk Mar '53 edition
9992748524 9789992748527
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A Stone for Danny Fisher: #81155
March 1977, Pocket Books (Kangaroo), div. of Simon & Schuster of Canada
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- 49th print of Pkt Book Mar '53 Ed
0671788434 9780671788438
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
April 15, 1975, Pocket Books (Kangaroo), div. of Simon & Schuster of Canada
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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0671788434 9780671788438
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