A Stone for Danny Fisher
By: [by] Harold Robbins
Edition: 1986 Reissue of Pkt Bk Mar '53 edition
Series: Pocket Books
Publisher: Pocket Books, a div. of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: September 1986
Language: srp
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9789992748527
Copyright date: 1951 by Harold Robbins
Subjects: Fiction
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: **Original edition published in 1952 by Alfred A. Kinopf, Inc., New York / Other system no. (OCoLC)7881668**