Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison-kicked out of college and hungry to write-went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous 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 basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas. This autobiography is a book whose message you will not be able to ignore or forget.
- ISBN10 0515037060
- ISBN13 9780515037067
- Publish Date 1 April 1975
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jove Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English