A Stone for Danny  Fisher
By: [by] Harold Robbins
Edition: Reprint of Pkt Book Mar '53 Ed
Series: Kangaroo Pocket Book
Publisher: Pocket Books (Kangaroo), div. of Simon & Schuster of Canada
Published: April 15, 1975
Place of publication: Markham, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780671788438
Copyright date: 1951 by Harold Robbins
Subjects: Non-Classifiable
Description: A stone for Danny Fisher is the story of a young man who did not start at the bottom. 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. He could not escape the gangsters, and later he became deeply involved in the black market and then in slot-machine rackets. Nevertheless, the driving force behind Danny's actions was always his sustaining love for Nellie. In a story that is harsh yet tender, realistic and yet compassionate, Harold Robbins reveals what makes the Danny Fishers what they are.
Notes: **Orig. 1st ed. published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1952 / This Pocket Book ed. published by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York / Other system no.(OCoLC)7881668****