Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88370 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Customer Reviews

Forgotten Robbins?
It is probably fair to say that Harold Robbins is, in most people's minds, thought of as a writer of breathless beach-books from the same era as Jackie Collins or Arthur Haley. However, here we have an earlier work that tries very hard to be 'literary' and almost pulls it off.

"A Stone For Danny Fisher" tells the story of a 'nice jewish boy' in the rough New York of the Depression Era. A series of events drives his family downwards towards poverty and young Danny, with an apparent gift for boxing, tries to help out by using his natural talent. However, this brings him in to contact with the criminal underworld and sets the stage for Danny's continuation as an adult in the shadowy world of semi-legality in cigarette smuggling. Deliverance from this way of life in to something respectable is abruptly cut short when hubris becomes nemesis....read it yourself!

Robbins has given us a tightly scripted story with a strong moral message. This is a very good example of a long forgotten genre of depression-era literature and is well worth reading for what Robbins was capable of. Ignore the god-awful screen adaptation for Elvis Presley - the story was so distorted as to be unrecognisable.

A Drama and Coming Of Age Story
It starts wan Danny Fisher moves the first time in an own house with his parents and his sister. Until adulthood he strugles through life, being always on the losing end of life. He fights against all odds for his family and sometimes disobeying his father in the way to make money.
"Moving Day" is a synonym for a change in life, for growing up. You'll like Danny, you'll feel his pain and hope that life will get easier for him. But the solution is a surpirse and the book will stay with you longer than you might expect.
In a few ways this book is strange, especially when you read the epilogue.
But it is worthwhile.