by Budd Schulberg · Allison & Busby · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749001407
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«What Makes Sammy Run?» is the fiction novel by Budd Schulberg, published by Allison & Busby in paperback (282 pages, in English).
Sammy Glick, a young man raised in the poor neighbourhoods of New York, makes his way with unbridled ambition from newspaper newsrooms to the top of 1930s Hollywood. In that rise he tramples everyone around him, showing the price of success and friendship in the entertainment industry.
The novel was originally published in 1941; the 1992 edition belongs to the Twentieth Century Classics collection.
For readers of classic American fiction interested in the dark side of success and the inner workings of Hollywood at the time.
Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947), as well as his screenplays for On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), receiving an Academy Award for the former.
