Bibliograph

Sweet Smell of Success, And Other Stories, Lehman, Ernest

Type

Label

Sweet Smell of Success, And Other Stories, Lehman, Ernest

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sweet Smell of Success

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lehman, Ernest

Sub title

And Other Stories

Summary

Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sid Wallace, an ambitious publicist, and Harvey Hunsucker, 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. As brutally honest as Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Sweet Smell of Success is one of the most enduring and provocative stories in the literature of show business

Target audience

adult

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