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On the Waterfront

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E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback

Author Budd Schulberg
Rights UK & Comm ex Can
ISBN 9780749080297
Pages 278
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โ€˜I couldโ€™ve had class. I couldโ€™ve been a contender.ย I couldโ€™ve been somebody.โ€™

 

Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, theย crooked lawyer known to all as โ€˜the Gentโ€™, are members ofย the tough, mobster-connected Longshoremenโ€™s 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 Johnnyโ€™s way and plead โ€˜Dโ€™n 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 Johnnyโ€™s 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 donโ€™t 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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