Budd Schulberg

A portrait of an age of both dazzling spiritand bitter disillusionment, based on the last drunkendays of F. Scott Fitzgerald.The 1920s: a golden age, and Manley Halliday is a golden figure. Lauded by the critics, this great writer of the decade has everything - beauty, brilliance, wealth, and a strikingly lovely wife. But years later, in the very different atmosphere of the thirties, Halliday is a shadow of his former self, cast upon the inhospitable shores of Hollywood.When Shep, a young and ambitious Hollywood screenwriter, is partnered up with Halliday, he is awestruck to find himself working alongside a literary hero. Enlisted by movie mogul Victor Milgrim to co-write college musical Love on Ice, the pair embark on a journey to New York. But Shep may find that his vision of the great Manley Halliday fails to match up with the man himself . . .

Budd Schulbergs celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication more than fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket.A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers.

Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as the Gent, are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the waterfront with an iron fist, meaning that if you want to stay alive, you do things Johnnys way: plead D & D - deaf and dumb.On The Waterfront is one of the most gripping tales of political corruption and individual heroism of our time. The 1954 film, starring Marlon Brando, achieved massive critical acclaim and went on to win eight Oscars, including Best Actor for Brando as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay for Schulberg. On The Waterfront is rightly considered a modern classic and is as powerful a read today as it was fifty years ago.

Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as the Gent, are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the waterfront with an iron fist, meaning that if you want to stay alive, you do things Johnnys way.

El desencantado es una novela fascinante. Budd Schulberg, en plena efervescencia de lo que acabó convirtiéndose en el gran mito de Hollywood, nos narra la estrecha colaboración entre un joven guionista y un reputado escritor venido a menos, contratados ambos para reescribir un guion. Radiografia desnuda y reconstruccion admirable del agitado mundo del cine, de los dorados años veinte y de la gran depresion de los treinta en America.

What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our timesfrom 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 Yorks 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 characteristichis 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 Glicks 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 measurelesspotentialities 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.

Cuando apareció la primera edición de «Más dura será la caída», en 1947, Gene Tunney, campeón de los pesos pesados, dijo que era «la novela más fidedigna que se hubiese escrito jamás sobre el boxeo».

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. El y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un dia conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atraccion que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura catolico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tirania de la mafia. En una fabulosa introduccion, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica como surgieron tanto esta novela como el guion de la pelicula homonimadirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brandoa partir de la informacion recopilada a lo largo de años de investigacion en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York."La ley del silencio nacio del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx".Gregorio Belinchon, El Pais"Una trama en la que la tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajisimos fondos".Rodrigo Fresan, ABC Cultural"Magnifica".J.J. Armas Marcelo, ABC Cultural"Un libro redondo".The New York Times"Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante".The New Republic

Este libro trata de un paraíso, el de los primeros años de Hollywood, visto a través de los ojos de un niño, hijo del gran B.P. Schulberg que estuvo en los orígenes de tantos proyectos de la naciente industria y que se mantuvo durante años a la cabeza de la Paramount Pictures. En sentido estricto, mas que las memorias de su autor (el famosisimo guionista de La ley del silencio o de Mas dura sera la caida o del novelista de merito que escribiera El desencantado o ¿Por que corre Sammy?) el presente libro es un friso informal pero coloreado e historico de la mas revolucionaria industria cultural del siglo XX. Rico en anecdotas, captura con brillantez la atmosfera, dorada y sordida, que acompaño a Hollywood desde su fundacion hasta las cumbres de su edad de oro.

Un relato punzante en el que Budd Schulberg exhibe el profundo conocimiento de la meca del cine que ya mostró en su magistral “De cine. Memorias de un príncipe de Hollywood”, en esta misma editorial.

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. El y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un dia conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atraccion que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura catolico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tirania de la mafia. En una fabulosa introduccion, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica como surgieron tanto esta novela como el guion de la pelicula homonimadirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brandoa partir de la informacion recopilada a lo largo de años de investigacion en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York.