Shabby Street
Orrie Hitt’s 1954 pulp classic is back and better than ever in a brand new acid-free trade paperback and eBook still sporting its original Walter Popp cover.

From the original: Johnny Reagan quickly learned the slum’s depraved rules for survival. At six, he was a petty thief. At twelve, he was a procurer. At twenty-one, he was a respectable, lovable, 18-carat heel who never missed a trick—especially if she promised an evening’s cheap thrills. Then rich Mr. Connors befriended Johnny, and Johnny knew there was big money to be made—if he pulled the right strings, told the right lies, and played around with the right women. But Johnny played with Julie . . . Julie who had been brought up in the same slum that had spawned Johnny—and who knew all the cute gutter tricks Johnny thought were his exclusive property . . . plus a few female tricks all her own. A tough and lusty novel that moves with the white-heat of a lightning bolt!
1108568703
Shabby Street
Orrie Hitt’s 1954 pulp classic is back and better than ever in a brand new acid-free trade paperback and eBook still sporting its original Walter Popp cover.

From the original: Johnny Reagan quickly learned the slum’s depraved rules for survival. At six, he was a petty thief. At twelve, he was a procurer. At twenty-one, he was a respectable, lovable, 18-carat heel who never missed a trick—especially if she promised an evening’s cheap thrills. Then rich Mr. Connors befriended Johnny, and Johnny knew there was big money to be made—if he pulled the right strings, told the right lies, and played around with the right women. But Johnny played with Julie . . . Julie who had been brought up in the same slum that had spawned Johnny—and who knew all the cute gutter tricks Johnny thought were his exclusive property . . . plus a few female tricks all her own. A tough and lusty novel that moves with the white-heat of a lightning bolt!
4.99 In Stock
Shabby Street

Shabby Street

by Orrie Hitt
Shabby Street

Shabby Street

by Orrie Hitt

eBook

$4.99 

Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers

LEND ME® See Details

Overview

Orrie Hitt’s 1954 pulp classic is back and better than ever in a brand new acid-free trade paperback and eBook still sporting its original Walter Popp cover.

From the original: Johnny Reagan quickly learned the slum’s depraved rules for survival. At six, he was a petty thief. At twelve, he was a procurer. At twenty-one, he was a respectable, lovable, 18-carat heel who never missed a trick—especially if she promised an evening’s cheap thrills. Then rich Mr. Connors befriended Johnny, and Johnny knew there was big money to be made—if he pulled the right strings, told the right lies, and played around with the right women. But Johnny played with Julie . . . Julie who had been brought up in the same slum that had spawned Johnny—and who knew all the cute gutter tricks Johnny thought were his exclusive property . . . plus a few female tricks all her own. A tough and lusty novel that moves with the white-heat of a lightning bolt!

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014099028
Publisher: Blackbird Books
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 547 KB

About the Author

Prince of the Pulps, Orrie Edwin Hitt, was a franchise unto himself. He did not complete his first novel until he was almost forty and wrote his last a mere fourteen years later, in 1968, but in between he racked up an impressive catalog, mostly paperback originals, classic pulps from the 50s and 60s, detailing the seedier side of life, the poor, wanton, or depraved. Hitt wrote about desperate people—men and women—people in need who would do things that most of us would never dare. And yet, somehow, his characters were precisely those people that you couldn’t get enough of and couldn’t help but root for.

A lifelong resident of Upstate New York, Orrie Hitt died at the age of fifty-nine, on December 7, 1975. He left a wife and four children. And a legacy of memorable books and char-acters that will be read and remembered for a long time to come, for not only their style and mood but for what they say about the human condition.
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews