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Hemingway said A man should never write what he doesnt know. In the midfifties Harlan Ellisonkicked out of college and hungry to writewent to NewYork to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs rumbles kidswith switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barelyout of his teens himself but he took a phony name moved into Brooklynsdangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a bopping club.What he experienced and the time he spent in jail as a result was the basisfor the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hourlong TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you wont be ableto ignore or forget. Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letterscutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simplymust be read. Pete Hamill Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as gutsa rare combination. Leslie Charteris creator of The Saint «
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