What Makes Sammy Run?

What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg is one of the classic Hollywood novels, along with The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, and The Last Tycoon by F Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald called What Makes Sammy Run? “a grand book, utterly fearless.” Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler said it “is still the quintessential novel about the all-American heel.
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