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Author:	Robert Grossbach
Title:	The Frisco Kid
Publisher:	Warner Books / Hamlyn Paperbacks
Country:	UK
Date:	Jul 1979
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, History, Cinema
ISBN-10:	0446902055
Cat#:	90-205
Rating:	2.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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a novelization by robert grossbach
based on a screenplay by
michael elias and frank shaw

("w" logo above:) warner books
a warner communications company
warner books are distributed in the united kingdom by
hamlyn paperbacks (title page)

warner books edition
copyright © 1979 by michael elias and frank shaw
isbn 0-446-90205-5
warner books, inc., rockefeller plaza, new york, n.y. 10019 (usa)
first printing: july 1979
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 (= third printing)(indica)

author's dedication: "for hayes jacobs, teacher and friend"

256pp including 6pp titles, indica, 2 blank pp; 2 blank end pp.
(such end pp. almost inevitably used for advertising current warner mmpb list titles and mail-order form in merkin editions)
cover art unattributed, pretty evidently from a film still
cover price: u.k. 90p (on back cover immediately before hamlyn paperbacks black square-mounted hollow block "H" logo)

printed in merkia pursuant to a major coup by hamlyn paperbacks incompetent buffoon of a mangling-director, walter clare,'s: he signed an agreement committing hamlyn paperbacks ltd. to publishing & distributing uk editions of all new & reprint mmpbs of all books warner books, inc. published to which they owned or currently controlled world english-language rights, and had failed to sell uk (& yeurppean) licences to other uk publishers...

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ppint. 30th Apr 2018		Rated 2/10 fiction, historical/history, western; film screenplay novelisation avram mutz is chosen to be sent from a galician yeshiva in december 1849 to be yerba buena's new rabbi, despite being universally recognised by the senior rabbis as the poorest -or, at least the second poorest - student in the yeshiva, and a pisher. or possibly because of being so recognised - yerba buena's possessed of a population of five thousand at best, can't be home to more than five to ten jews, must have to scrape together a bare minyan - but they cannot deny it a rabbi. even if it's just recently changed its name, doubtless to the confusion of everyone - to "san francisco". the set-up has possibilities - pishibilities, even - and it might make a passably (pishibly?) funny film: after all, it's got the talents of gene wilder and harrison ford to bring its script to life, and plenty of cues for puns, politically unsound prat-falls, as well as for home-spun snippets of wisdom, and fortunes to be made, and lost: when avram arrives on the east coast, the san francisco gold-rush has just got under way; but it isn't enough to be a novel, not even picaresque journey of discovery, and self-discovery, journeying across the plains. this is simply a string of isolated encounters, with nothing to distinguish them in terms of lessons learned progressively by an innocent abroad, nor knowledge gained about the new country he has reached. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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