On the Waterfront
Price: £6.99 – £8.99
Format | E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback |
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Author | Budd Schulberg |
Rights | UK & Comm ex Can |
ISBN | 9780749080297 |
Pages | 278 |
Description
โI couldโve had class. I couldโve been a contender.ย I couldโve been somebody.โ
Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, theย crooked lawyer known to all as โthe Gentโ, are members ofย the tough, mobster-connected Longshoremenโs Union, runย by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the waterfrontย with an iron fist. If you want to stay alive, you do thingsย Johnnyโs way and plead โDโn Dโ โ deaf and dumb.
Terry, seen by most as a slow-witted, washed-up fighter,ย is happy to do any work he can get. But when he isย caught up in one of Johnnyโs rub-outs and meets Katie,ย sister of the murdered man, a conscience begins to form.ย Together with the idealistic but tough-talking Catholicย priest Father Barry, Terry and Katie attempt to take on theย gangster-ridden waterfront. But Johnny Friendly and hisย men donโt take kindly to ratting, and their attempts toย undermine the mob may come at a severe cost.
The original novel of the Oscar-winning classic film.
What The Critics Said
'White-hot fiction'The New York Times
'Novelist Schulberg has put into a book all the things scriptwriter Schulberg did not get said on the screen. A gripping story of New York's harbor.'Time
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