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A selection of five short stories in this Penguin 60 taken from [b:On Broadway 1290777 On Broadway Damon Runyon https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327985306s/1290777.jpg 1279866].All set in New York in the 1930's era, these stories all feature the same narrator, who is an ‘acquaintance' of all the story characters. They are nicely written, highly paced (ok they are short stories, so if they don't maintain pace, they have failed), and all offer closure.The language and the terminology, although seriously dated, provides legitimacy to the setting - all the women are referred to as dolls and in the case of these characters are normally nightclub dancers by profession! Other examples it comes out then that I owe Bookie Bob ten G's...; “Say” Bookie Bob says “you do not suppose I am chump enough to give my ever-loving wife twenty-five G's, or even let he know where she can get her dukes on twenty-five G's belonging to me, do you?”; ...but the only diamond she ever sees is an engagement hoop that Alfie gives her as a convincer when he happens to be in the money for a moment, and it is a very small diamond, at that, and it needs a high north light when you look at it. The character names speak for themselves - Bookie Bob, Joe the Joker, Frankie Ferocious, Ropes McGonigle, Little Alfie, Miss Beulah Beauregard, Feet Samuels.I can't help but read the dialogue with a horribly put on 1930s New York accent...
