Sweet smell of success
the short fiction of Ernest Lehman
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Lehman, Ernest, 1915- - Contributor
Publication
2000 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6780655M
- ISBN-101585670472
- OCLC Control Number43791015
- OCLC Control Numbersweetsmellofsucc00lehm
- Library of Congress Control Number00026869
and 2 more
- LibraryThing297282
- Goodreads624891
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.E4283 A6 2000
Description
"Best known as the basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, and soon to be a major Broadway musical, Sweet Smell of Success is a dark and gripping novelette about media manipulation and the will to get ahead - by any means necessary. Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sidney Falco, an ambitious publicist, and J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and vindictive gossip columnist, fashioned after Walter Winchell. As scandals are manufactured and reputations ruined for sport, the story spirals downward toward one last, savage act of revenge."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
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Genres
- Fiction.
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