The Big Boys

by Max Ehrlich

302 pages, Hardcover

First published June 22, 1981

Reviews

[Eddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

exciting book! Good plot lot of characters kept my interest going so why can't this book get this high rating where it was very entertaining unlike Joan didion who just writes a journal and people think it's literature when it's not. This is actually good writing the book was entertaining start out a little slow but moved very very quickly into high gear with a fascinating plot interesting characters all driven by greed and this falls into the category of a historical novel so it's fun and it's a little bit of a learning experience very worthwhile book.

[Lorna · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best portrayals of the Crash of 1929 that I've read. Really got into the heads of these characters. Not to say that I liked all of them. Like Freddie, who thinks he's so ambitious. No -- you're greedy and full of yourself. Hannah, I feel really bad for. Okay, I knew somehow, some way, she would get the plastic surgery. But...then she marries the same jerk who rejected her? Maybe she felt she didn't deserve better? C. F. Bennett is right out of a Peter Arno cartoon, and that's a compliment to the author.

The plotting was top-notch. Every time I thought it couldn't get worse for these people, it did, and at times the tension was unbearable. And I think that's why I'm so surprised that this book seems to have been utterly forgotten. I know it's from 1981, but I can't believe no one re-read it. Or saw a copy on someone else's shelf and borrowed it, or found it at the library, or *something*.