“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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