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by Richard Elman


  “Sure,” I said. “Sure I will.”

  As I drove off I was smiling. I knew Betsy was watching me. It was sort of nice to know I wasn’t the only person in New York who liked me.

  Galore.

  Lotsa people have problems making friends, I thought, even Betsy.

  Getting along with other people is never too easy.

  Which is no excuse for not living.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  RICHARD ELMAN, who has written the novelization of the screenplay of Taxi Driver, has received critical acclaim for his fiction. He first made his impact on the American literary scene with his trilogy, The 28th Day of Elul, Lilo’s Diary and The Reckoning. Writing of Elman’s second novel, John Leonard said, “In conjunction with The 28th Day, it is an enterprise of art, a work that alters the consciousness of the beholder.” His most recent work includes: two novels, An Education in Blood and Freddie & Shirl & the Kids; a nonfiction book on the Rolling Stones, Uptight with the Rolling Stones; a short story collection, Crossing Over; and the first published collection of his poetry, The Man Who Ate New York and Other Poems of Manhattan and Ossabaw Island.

  Table of Contents

  Back Cover

  Preview

  Movie

  Titlepage

  Copyright

  Dedicate

  TAXI DRIVER

  1: Travis Gets a Job

  2: Travis Working

  3: We Meet Betsy

  4: Further Thoughts

  5: Small Talk in a Greasy Spoon

  6: Betsy Meet Travis Bickle

  7: Coffee Shop Rendezvous

  8: Behind The Wheel

  9: Date Night

  10: Phone Calls and Flowers

  11: The Pussy and The .44

  12: The Traveling Salesman

  13: Travis Gets Organized

  14: The $20 Ride

  15: Foreplay To Gunplay

  16: Incident in a Deli

  17: Midafternoon Melodrama

  18: The Wizard Speaks

  19: A New Face in the Crowd

  20: A Remembered Face

  21: Campaign Promises

  22: Sweet Iris

  23: Late Breakfast

  24: God’s Lonely Man

  25: There is an Assassin

  26: Macks Nix, Young Trooper

  27: Old Friends

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

 


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