Jerome Weidman (1913–1998)
Auteur van I Can Get it for You Wholesale
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Werken van Jerome Weidman
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Weidman, Jerome
- Geboortedatum
- 1913-04-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1998-10-06
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA (1930)
City College of New York
New York University Law School - Beroepen
- playwright
novelist
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale door Jerome Weidman
a schmuck from '50's NY colorfully describes his misdeeds
Harry Bogen, from I Can Get It For You Wholesale, is back on Seventh Avenue and he's swindling a loan shark. This time he actually gets his, but good. He's left flat broke, wanted by the law and his sweet Jewish mother dies. The guy is so loathsome I was almost happy to see it. Not his mother dying though, that was too much. Published in 1938. Glad it's over on the whole. Now I can get on to other things.
Set in New York's garment district, written in 1937. The main character, Harry Bogen, is a total schmuck. The sexism and sexual harassment in this book are amazing. He'd fire any secretary that wouldn't put out in a heartbeat. He makes quite a lot of money running crooked businesses and spends it all on shiksas. His good Jewish mother wants him to marry a nice Jewish girl, Ruthie Rivkin, but Harry seems to be determined to rid himself of all signs of his jewishness, to the point where he even calls his business partner a heeb at one point. He is the definition of unscrupulousness, incarnate. I must say, after I got used to it, I really started to enjoy the language though. He has an amazing, over-the-top, comic dialogue style that makes the book really move. They apparently made it into a musical with Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould in 1962, before they were famous. Now I'm reading the sequel What's In It For Me?… (meer)
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- Werken
- 57
- Ook door
- 24
- Leden
- 468
- Populariteit
- #52,559
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 45
