- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: E P Dutton (September 1984)
- ISBN-10: 052548132X
- ISBN-13: 978-0525481324
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Breaking the law in a foolhardy attempt to accommodate his customers, unscrupulous department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in jail and at the mercy of the warden, who tries to break Leo of his determination to stay bad. Reprint. NYT.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Starts off promising..., Jun 12 2000
By A. L Mcnamara "covert1304" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Bad Man (Paperback)
This book started out very well, with the interesting premise of a properous businessman who grows more and more unscrupulous and eventually winds up in jail. The early details of the man's youth with his mentally unbalanced, emigrant merchant father are very entertaining, and the details of the man's unsatisfactory homelife are often very funny. However, the surreal nature of the prison life and the magical realism that the author indulges in are overdone, too detailed and ridiculous.The author seems to be trying to say that the businessman's corruption stemmed from something in his soul, and that the prison with its psuedo-psychologist warden and its crazy rules is there to address this part of the man's character, but in the end it's all a tedious mish-mash and the speeches all go on for too long. The book collapses under the weight of this surreal, oddball device.
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