Damon Runyon: A Life.

The Nation | November 18, 1991| | Copyright

DAMON RUNYON: A Life. By Jimmy

Breslin. Ticknor & Fields. 410pp. $24.95.

Damon Runyon's New York was a mythical patch of Manhattan real estate known as "Broadway," a fantasy world populated by the kind of people who define the word "Runyonesque"-sentimental gangsters, bighearted bookies, grifters, floozies, Apple Annies and assorted menacing wise guys. The denizens of this never-never land speak a distinctive patois that calls for verbs always to be in the present tense and eschews contractions. Thus: 

 
  One morning along about four bells, I 
   am ...

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