Some Faces in the Crowd

Budd Schulberg is a master of the art of the short story, as he proved in his early collection, Some Faces in the Crowd. The crowd is the American landscape: indelible characters drawn coast-to-coast from the teeming streets of New York to tables at Hollywood's legendary nightclub, Ciro's. In these sparkling stories, Schulberg brings us vivid, restless people haunted by abrupt failure in the wake of rapid success.

Twenty dazzling stories by the writer behind "On the Waterfront" and "A Face in the Crowd"
Despite growing up among Hollywood's most powerful producers and movie stars in the 1920s and '30s, Budd Schulberg was always a populist at heart. In this collection of his best short fiction, Schulberg takes readers from the halls of privilege in Los Angeles to smoky dives and dockyard slums in New York. His eye for detail and nose for trouble render characters as vividly as a Weegee photograph. These stories also represent the great clash of people and ideas in mid-century America. The collection includes "The Arkansas Traveler," the story Schulberg adapted into the influential, prescient film "A Face in the Crowd" starring Andy Griffith.

Listening Length: 11 hours and 1 minute
Version: Unabridged