Books like To Have and Have Not
Harry Morgan, a charter-boat captain in Key West cheated out of his fee in the Depression, turns to running rum and people across the straits from Cuba to keep his family fed.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
A small-time criminal in 1970s Boston tries to sell a truckload of stolen guns, and every conversation he has reveals how the underworld really works.
Islands in the Stream
Thomas Hudson, a painter living alone on Bimini, is visited one summer by his three sons; later, in Cuba during the war, he hunts German submarines with his boat.
In Dubious Battle
Jim Nolan, a young Communist recruit, goes with the seasoned organiser Mac to a California valley to lead the apple pickers in a strike against the growers.
Billy Bathgate
A boy in 1930s New York enters the orbit of the gangster Dutch Schultz and discovers that the underworld's glamour conceals a machinery of violence.
Of Mice and Men
Two migrant workers in Depression-era California dream of owning a small farm, but loneliness and violence conspire against even the simplest hopes.
The Old Man and the Sea
An ageing Cuban fisherman hooks the biggest marlin of his life and fights the sea, the sharks, and his own failing body to bring it home.
Ham on Rye
A boy grows up in Depression-era Los Angeles with an abusive father and an imagination fuelled by books, and the suffering is leavened by a stubborn refusal to be defeated.
The Thief and the Dogs
Said Mahran walks out of a Cairo prison determined to take revenge on his wife, who left him for his accomplice, and on the mentor who betrayed his ideals.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Frank Chambers, a drifter, stops at a roadside diner in California run by a Greek immigrant and his young wife, Cora, and takes a job there because of her.
Serena
In 1929 a timber baron brings his new wife Serena to the North Carolina mountains, and her ruthlessness, matched with his own, makes them a terror to the loggers and to anyone who stands in their way.
Sanctuary
A young woman in Depression-era Mississippi is violated by a bootlegger, and the justice system that responds reveals more about the corruption of power than the crime itself.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine, a card dealer in Chicago's Polish neighbourhood, back from the war with a morphine habit, wants to be a jazz drummer and to get clear of the life.