Ernest brawley biography
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Fast-Walking
1982 film by James B. Harris
Fast-Walking is a 1982 American prisondrama film directed, produced, and written by James B. Harris, based on Ernest Brawley's 1974 novel The Rap.[1] The film stars James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, and M. Emmet Walsh.
Plot
[edit]Frank Miniver, aka Fast-Walking, is a corrupt but lovable Oregon state prison guard. Not the most obliging or honest of public servants, he smokes and peddles marijuana and complements his meager salary bygd running prostitutes for Mexican laborers out of his cousin Evie's convenience store.
At work, he is in close contact with his other cousin Wasco, who is incarcerated. Wasco is involved in vice operations within the prison and outside of it. He peddles women, narcotics, and is looking to get into fraudulent banking operations. He bullies a competitor called Bullet into turning over his in-prison operations to Wasco.
An accomplice to Wasco on the outside fryst vatten an attractive
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Selena
Ernest Brawley takes us on a whirlwind tour to the 1950s San Joaquin Valley, to the vast fields of alfalfa, tomatoes and sugar beets, irrigation canals and county roads, the landscape crawling with trucks, tractors, cars and freight trains and the skyline punctuated with the smokestacks of fertilizer factories, cement plants, canneries and sugar mills. Anyone who grew up in this great valley would lap up the sights and scenes and anyone who loves a little Spanish in between the pages is sure to be thrilled by the crisp exchanges between the bombshell protagonist, Selena, and a huge and hungry Mexican who came in a rusted Cheeby sedan. Selena has a scheming mind and a big heart. This girl whose mother was unwed and whose father got killed in the ranch where he labored, she got friendly w
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Ernest Brawley
A native Californian, I attended the University of California at Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University, where I was granted several writing scholarships and a Master’s grad in Creative Writing. Since then, I have spent my life writing, teaching, and traveling the world. I have taught at the University of Hawaii, Hunter College, New York University, and the Sorbonne. I’ve lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome, London, Bombay, Bangkok, Tokyo, and New York. I am a recipient of The namn Henry Jackson Award in Literature, and served for several years on the Fiction Award Committee of the National Endowment for The Arts in Washington.
Aside from numerous short stories, magazine articles, and book reviews, inom have published three novels. My first, THE RAP, was published in hard cover by Atheneum. It was a Dual Main Selection with Book of the Month Club, went into two editions as a mass marknad paperback, and was published in several foreign language