Description: Take It Easy - Damon Runyon - 1945 US Pocket Book Vintage Paperback. Fourteen Stories by Damon Runyon. Hard to find in the UK a rare vintage paperback. Damon Runyon was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit," "Benny Southstreet," "Big Jule," "Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen Kid." Runyon wrote these stories in a distinctive vernacular style: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions. I have many more books listed and more being added all the time. Please do browse my other books and add me as a seller. I will happily combine postage costs and pass on any savings to you if you buy multiple items.
Price: 7 GBP
Location: Buckhurst Hill
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Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Special Attributes: Vintage Paperback
Signed: No
Fiction Subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
Author: Damon Runyon
Region: North America
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: Pocket Books
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1945
