Indecent Proposal

Literature & Fiction

Jack Engelhard

Contemporary

Signet / Penguin Books

It was 1973. It was the golden age of Secretariat and the days of Arcaro and Shoemaker... but it was one rider above them all who drew the racing world's rapt attention. That was Walter Blum. To count himself among the truly great he would have to win the 4,000th race of his career. He needed six more. That pursuit and so much more about the racetrack inspired international bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard to produce a factual journalistic account of what it's really like behind the scenes. His book, The Horsemen, became an instant classic. The New York Times devoted a full spread on its Sports front page to excerpt and celebrate the book. "Racing has found its laureate." Thus cheered famed New York Post racing writer Ray Kerrison writing for the pages of The National Star. The Horsemen continues to draw acclaim from readers throughout the racing world and from readers who simply enjoy a great book.Praise received: "If you love racing, you owe it to yourself to get your hands on it, read it and savor it, because it may be the best, sharpest, most vivid portrait of life around the racetrack ever written." - Ray Kerrison, New York Post columnist, writing for The National Star"In The Horsemen these interesting characters give spice to the backstretch stew from which Engelhard offers us delicious spoonfuls. It's quite a cast and quite a book." - Harlan Abbey, writing for The Thoroughbred Record"Engelhard writes with the sparseness of Hemingway and the moral intensity of I.B. Singer." - Michael Foster, author of Three in Love (HarperCollins)"Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer and the conscience of us all." - John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969About the Author: Jack Engelhard is a leading American novelist whose bestsellers have been translated and celebrated worldwide. His works have been turned into smash-hit movies, notably Indecent Proposal. He has been hailed as an heir to Hemingway for the economy of his prose. He is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence, among other laurels. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

The Horsemen: The Thoroughbred Racing World from the Other Side of the Rail

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Henry Regnery Company

The Days of the Bitter End

Did two Kennedys die on that tragic day in Dallas? This is the drama during the days of Camelot when American comedy turned into Amerca s tragedy... Americans lost their innocence on that tragic day in Dallas November 22, 1963. The Days of the Bitter End takes readers back to the streets of the political and cultural focal point of the sixties: New York City's Greenwich Village -- at the moment of one of contemporary history's life-changing events -- John F. Kennedy's assassination. But for comedian Cliff Harris, whose career was based solely on his superb talent to imitate the dashing young President Kennedy, life is changed forever. After rising from obscurity in Philadelphia to national prominence on television s entertainment institution, The Ed Sullivan Show, Harris (whose character is based on real-life Kennedy impersonator Vaughn Meader) becomes America s most popular comedic performer, doing JFK so well that even the First Lady has a tough time telling the difference. But when the popular president is suddenly gunned down by Lee Harvey Wallace, the bullets that kill Kennedy also kill Harris career, taking him down along with rest of Camelot.
 The novel is populated with real people of the "beat scene." Engelhard was there during that thrilling era -- the doorman at the now-famous Bitter End nightclub that played host to many counter-culture legends including Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and Jack Kerouac. His novel is filled with lively fictionalized versions of characters he knew and worked with that capture the passion and drama of the 60s generation.The Days of the Bitter End vividly brings to life the streets of New York City s renowned Greenwich Village. That vibrant political and cultural focal point of the 1960s is stunningly reflected in all its exuberance, sex, pot-smoking, poetry and politics. 
Engelhard's heartfelt work recaptures the day American innocence turned into an American tragedy and our nation moved from the sweetness of postwar life to the bitter era of Vietnam.

Literary

ComteQ Publishing

The adventures of 'Tom Sawyer' with an ironic, Yiddish twist." WINNER -- 2001 MPA -- "Excellence In Independent Publishing" Award. OFFICIAL Selection CANNES Film Festival 2011 for this memoir's first short story, My Father, Joe...filmed by Nikila Cole. The adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange exploits of a youth during his family's adjustment to a new world, these compelling boyhood memories are of an almost Tom Sawyer character, albeit with ironic Yiddish twist. "All the short stories within this memoir illuminate and pack a wallop. They sparkle and shine in Engelhard’s unique minimalist style…prose that is lean, reserved and economical…if there is one word to describe Engelhard’s writing, I’d choose CHARM. What a gift to those of us who understand the trials and triumphs of growing up. Escape From Mount Moriah…the finest, perhaps the greatest memoir I have ever read." Reviewer S. Dite

Escape from Mount Moriah: Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph

Historical

DayRay Literary Press

Escape from Mount Moriah: Trials & Triumphs of a Kid in a New Homeland

Memoirs

Ein unmoralisches Angebot

Bastei Lübbe Verlag

Indicent Proposal [Japanese Edition]

Fusōsha

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