Sweet smell of success
Subtitle: the short fiction of Ernest Lehman
By: Ernest Lehman.
Contributors: Lehman, Ernest, 1915-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Best known as the basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, and soon to be a major Broadway musical, Sweet Smell of Success is a dark and gripping novelette about media manipulation and the will to get ahead - by any means necessary. Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sidney Falco, an ambitious publicist, and J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and vindictive gossip columnist, fashioned after Walter Winchell.

As scandals are manufactured and reputations ruined for sport, the story spirals downward toward one last, savage act of revenge."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Contents originally published in 1957 by New American Library as two separate works under the titles: Sweet smell of success and The comedian.
Table of contents: title: Sweet smell of success; title: The man who liked to look at women; title: Don't you like it out here?; title: The way men are; title: You can't have everything; title: He brung happiness to millions; title: The small sound of applause; title: The comedian; title: The happy hangover; title: Hunsecker fights the world; title: End of summer; title: Clear connection; title: The unguarded moment; title: Clear Havana filler; title: It's the little things that count.