Dust jacket notes: "The World of Damon Runyon is not a conventional biography. It is an evocation of an American scene. Tom Clark has written not only a life of Damon Runyon - a completely original and engaging figure - but also a story of Runyon's times, of the world he inhabited. The author follows Runyon from his anarchic and lonely youth during the last days of the Old West to success and notoriety in a world of Broadway haunts, fight rings, press boxes, floating card games, speakeasies, ten-dollar windows at Pimlico and Saratoga, nights at the Colony and the Stork Club. In this world there are characters fixed in legend - Al Capone, Jack Dempsey, Jimmy Walker, Nick the Greek - and a street population of rogues and mugs. In his more than three decades as a columnist and sports reporter, Runyon developed a distinctive style: he had an incomparable ear and deep appreciation for the 'roar of the town.' Runyon's writing, such as Guys and Dolls, offers a unique vision of America during the era of 'Wonderful Nonsense.' Clark captures the intricacies of Runyon's complicated temperament and personality: sociable and iconoclastic, dapper and sensitive, pleasant and irascible, detached and generous. The glamorous events of Runyon's public life are contrasted to the private upheavals: the erased children and vanished wives, the struggle with final illness. Clark describes this book as 'biography by association.' It is a vivid account: the era was deeply alive and Runyon, the acute, ironic observer, is one of its most enduring symbols."

The World of Damon Runyon

TOM CLARK

Harper&Row

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Oxford

Offers practical guidelines for implementing and utilizing SANs to solve the real-world needs of business networks. Introduces Fibre Channel SAN technology and demonstrates exactly how it can be used to address specific application challenges. Softcover. DLC: Computer networks.

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Jack Kerouac: A biography

No devotee of Jack Kerouac should be without this biography, fully illustrated with over 120 magnificent photographs. Kerouac epitomized the "Beat Generation" writers of the 1950s, and his most famous novel, On the Road, provided a textbook for the bohemian lifestyle that has attracted disenchanted youth ever since. Dubbed "the James Dean of the typewriter, " his own life was as colorful as his books. Featuring a foreword by Carolyn Cassady, Kerouac's lover, wife of Nell Cassady, and one of the key figures in his life, this authoritative biography presents perhaps the most judicious look at this tragic genius ever published.

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