The Dream Street of the title is Broadway. This collection of short stories is told by an anonymous narrator totally in the first person. It is so totally in the first person , a student of Runyon has found he only used 'was' a half dozen times in all his fiction.
Here we have tales of hitmen, gamblers , pimps and dance hall girls all trying to make a dollar and find success.
The characters are not nice people but Runyon gives them humanity in their own pathetic way. The stand out is is the humour, fantastically funny throughout
The musical Guys & Dolls was based on characters from these stories. A brilliant read.
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