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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bentley Pub
Publication date
June 1, 1979
Pages
303
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780837604350
ISBN-10
0837604354
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Original list price
$16.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: What Makes Sammy Run?
Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our timesâfrom the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?
This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New Yorkâs East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristicâhis congenital incapacity for friendship.
An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.
When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glickâs real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.
Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our timesâfrom the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?
This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New Yorkâs East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristicâhis congenital incapacity for friendship.
An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.
When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glickâs real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.
Editions
Hardcover
from Random House Inc (May 1, 2002)
9780375508318 | details & prices | 303 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $22.00
About: What Makes Sammy Run?
About: What Makes Sammy Run?
Anv edition from Random House Inc (January 1, 1990)
9780394576183 | details & prices | List price $19.95
About: Sammy Glick, obsessed by his ambition, lies and cheats his way to the front office of a major Hollywood studio
About: Sammy Glick, obsessed by his ambition, lies and cheats his way to the front office of a major Hollywood studio
The price comparison is for this edition
from Bentley Pub (June 1, 1979)
Paperback
Reissue edition from Vintage Books (October 1, 1993)
9780679734222 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.00
from Viking Pr (May 1, 1978)
9780140047950 | details & prices | 252 pages | List price $3.95
About: An inside story of a ruthless, ambitious opportunist who steps on everybody to reach the top in Hollywood
About: An inside story of a ruthless, ambitious opportunist who steps on everybody to reach the top in Hollywood
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