The Novels of Jimmy Breslin: World Without End, Amen; The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight; Table Money; and Forsaking All Others
Oct 2018 · Open Road Media
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Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.
Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally comfortable with comedy and tragedy, often intermixing the two ( New York Daily News). Collected here are four of his best-loved novels, including three New York Times bestsellers.
World Without End, Amen: Hoping to find redemption, disgraced, alcoholic NYPD cop Dermot Davey travels to Ulster—the heart of the increasingly bloody Irish Troubles—to find the father who abandoned him as a child, in this New York Times bestseller.
"Excellent . . . Breslin writes prose in a New York idiom with a shrewdness all his own." — The New York Times
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Breslin's New York Times–bestselling, madcap novel of the sloppiest turf war ever launched by the Brooklyn mob was the basis for the hilarious movie starring Jerry Orbach as the witless Kid Sally Palumbo and a young pre– Godfather II Robert De Niro.
"A very funny novel . . . and a good one." — The Village Voice
Table Money: This New York Times bestseller "about flesh-and-blood working people" is the story of Owney Morrison, a Vietnam vet who returns home to Queens with a Congressional Medal of Honor and few prospects (Studs Terkel). Owney takes up the family legacy as a sandhog—a tunnel worker. But when his drinking gets out of control, his wife Dolores considers leaving with their baby daughter rather than being dragged down by a man who feels safest one hundred feet below the street.
"[A] serious literary novel, a superior work of fiction." — The New York Times
Forsaking All Others: Puerto Rican drug dealer Teenager will stop at nothing to dominate the South Bronx narcotics trade—but a scorching affair between a crime boss's daughter who's literally married to the mob and Teenager's childhood friend, legal aid lawyer Maximo Escobar, threatens to ruin the entire operation. Before it's all over, the South Bronx is going to burn.
"A novel of considerable complexity and richness." — Chicago Tribune
Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally comfortable with comedy and tragedy, often intermixing the two ( New York Daily News). Collected here are four of his best-loved novels, including three New York Times bestsellers.
World Without End, Amen: Hoping to find redemption, disgraced, alcoholic NYPD cop Dermot Davey travels to Ulster—the heart of the increasingly bloody Irish Troubles—to find the father who abandoned him as a child, in this New York Times bestseller.
"Excellent . . . Breslin writes prose in a New York idiom with a shrewdness all his own." — The New York Times
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Breslin's New York Times–bestselling, madcap novel of the sloppiest turf war ever launched by the Brooklyn mob was the basis for the hilarious movie starring Jerry Orbach as the witless Kid Sally Palumbo and a young pre– Godfather II Robert De Niro.
"A very funny novel . . . and a good one." — The Village Voice
Table Money: This New York Times bestseller "about flesh-and-blood working people" is the story of Owney Morrison, a Vietnam vet who returns home to Queens with a Congressional Medal of Honor and few prospects (Studs Terkel). Owney takes up the family legacy as a sandhog—a tunnel worker. But when his drinking gets out of control, his wife Dolores considers leaving with their baby daughter rather than being dragged down by a man who feels safest one hundred feet below the street.
"[A] serious literary novel, a superior work of fiction." — The New York Times
Forsaking All Others: Puerto Rican drug dealer Teenager will stop at nothing to dominate the South Bronx narcotics trade—but a scorching affair between a crime boss's daughter who's literally married to the mob and Teenager's childhood friend, legal aid lawyer Maximo Escobar, threatens to ruin the entire operation. Before it's all over, the South Bronx is going to burn.
"A novel of considerable complexity and richness." — Chicago Tribune
Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.
Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally comfor...
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Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and one of most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin started working in New York City newsrooms in the 1940s. He began as a columnist in 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy's assassination from the emergency room in the Dallas Hospital and, later, from the point of view of the President's gravedigger at Arlington Cemetery. He ran for citywide office on a secessionist platform, befriended and was beaten up by mobsters, and received letters from the Son of Sam during the serial killer's infamous 1977 spree. Known as one of the best-informed journalists in the city, Breslin's years of insightful reporting won him a Pulitzer in 1986, awarded for "columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens." Although he stopped writing his weekly column for Newsday in 2004, Breslin continued to write books, having produced nearly two dozen in his lifetime. He passed away in 2017 at the age of eighty-eight.
Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and one of most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin started working in New York City newsrooms in the 1940s. He began as a columnist in 1963, when he won national attention by covering John ...
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