A Stone for Danny Fisher [antikvár]

Danny Fisher never got an even break. He loved the house in Brooklyn where he had lived when he was small. But his family lost it and moved to a shabby East Side tenement. He might have been a sensational boxing champ. But he took a bribe and then forgot to lose. Persecuted for his religion, disowned by his father, hunted by crooked gamblers, Danny Fisher stood almost alone against the world. Two girls believed in him, one a prostitute, and the other a gii'l he loved. With their faith and his toughness . . . and while there was still breath left in his scarred body, Danny would never quit! Few novehsts know the seamy side of New York life as well as Harold Bobbins, or tell about it in so reahstic a way, as readers of his novels 79 Park Avenue and Never Love a Stranger can testify. Like those best sellers, A Stone for Danny Fisher was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. It is a gripping story of the passions, lusts and tragedies of slum life in a big city, and is the book from which Paramount took the story line for the motion picture King Creole, starring Elvis Presley. wvvvvvvvwwvvvvvvmwtvvwvwwtvvvv^^ A Stone for Danny Fisher WWWWWVWVWVVVWWWWrtVVWWWMAVWWWVVWVWWV^^ Chapter One There are many ways to get to Mount Zion Cemetery. You can go by automobile, through the many beautiful parkways of Long Island, or by subway, bus or trolley. There are many ways to get to Mount Zion Cemetery, but during this week there is no way that is not crushed and crowded with people. "Why should this be so?" you ask, for in the full flush of life there is something frightening about going to a cemetery —except at certain times. But this week, the week before the High Holy Days, is one of these times. For this is the week that Lord God Jehovah calls His angels about Him and opens before them the Book of Life. And your name is inscribed on one of these pages. Written on that page will be your fate for the coming year. For these six days the book will remain open and you will have the opportunity to prove that you are deserving of His kindness. During these six days you devote yourself to acts of churity and devotion. One of these acts is the annual visit to the dead. And to make sure that your visit to the departed will be noted and the proper credit given, you will pick up a small stone from the earth beneath your feet and place it on the monument so that the Recording Angel will see it when he comes through the cemetery each night. You meet at the time appointed under an archway of white