In a message dated 1/12/01 3:26:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jurnum@utu.fi writes:
> Hoke has three books in his
> > room: HEIDI (left over from his divorce), A
STONE FOR DANNY FISHER by
> > Harold Robbins, and a Webster's dictionary.
When he buys and reads "an
> > occasional paperback novel," he leaves it in
the lobby of his hotel for
> > the others. What's with the Harold Robbins
novel? Does anyone know what
> > it's about?
I think the Danny Fisher novel was also a bit of a classic in
the '50s for being a serious, mainstream novel with a healthy
dollop of sex in it. Kind of like Judy Blume's books,
especially her novel "Forever", were to my generation growing
up in the '70s.
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