Word: bastardizes
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...story chiefly concerns the bastard son of Nick Romano, the young Chicago gangster who walked to the chair in Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself...
Hume gave Communism a whirl, masqueraded as an R.A.F. officer ("It was a great thrill to have everyone saluting a bastard like me"), got married. Then he met Setty. "He had a voice like broken bottles and pockets stuffed with cash." When he heard reports that Setty was hanging around his wife, Hume suddenly felt a twinge of jealousy, grabbed a dagger and-"continued next week...
...Moses grows up amid the hundred-odd bastard princelings who throng the palace, the Aton underground works on him steadily, guiding and teaching him. Ramses, kept informed by his spies, visits a lot more than ten plagues on Moses, until he finally escapes from Egypt, crosses the Red Sea and sets out "into the Wilderness of Sinai." Author Fast handles his subject matter skillfully, is at his best in descriptions of palace life, battle scenes, landscape studies. His Moses is reasonably convincing as a potential lawgiver who comes to believe that the god Aton is really justice. But Howard Fast...
...forest clearing. At first suspected, Katrena is later cleared and promptly marries an earlier suitor named Ondrej. When she bears a child ahead of schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage, reveals in a drunken soliloquy that he is the murderer, later confesses publicly. Katrena retires with her bastard child to live with old Stelina, father of her lover, and the chorus, as commentator on the action, concludes that "life sings of joy and sorrow...
...Hell, I hope Braddock does go to Key; I always thought he was a bastard anyhow...