Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins
(1916-1997) was a bestselling author whose novels about sex, money, and power
were scorned by critics but loved by readers. His most notable books include Never Love a Stranger, The Carpetbaggers, and The Betsy. Several of his novels were made
into movies, including A Stone for Danny
Fisher, which became the film King
Creole, starring Elvis Presley.
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
- By: Harold Robbins
- Narrator: Charles Leggett
- Length: 16 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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4.01(2070 ratings)
Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering, and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another. Danny was a boxer–a sensational amateur and potential champion–and he might have gone straight had the fight promoters not tried to exert pressure. Nevertheless, the driving force behind Danny’s actions was always his sustaining love for Nellie. In a story that is realistic and yet compassionate, Harold Robbins reveals what makes the Danny Fishers what they are.
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