Blood Pressure

E516740

"Blood Pressure" is a short story by Damon Runyon that provided the narrative basis for the musical "Guys and Dolls."

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Blood Pressure canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf person
short story
stage musical
author Damon Runyon
basedOn Blood Pressure
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
countryOfOrigin United States
fictionalUniverse Damon Runyon New York underworld stories
genre crime fiction
humorous fiction
short fiction
hasCharacterType Broadway gamblers
small-time crooks
tough-talking New Yorkers
hasHumorStyle deadpan humor
hasNarrativeElementsInCommonWith The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
hasTheme New York underworld life
gambling
romantic entanglements
influenced book of the musical Guys and Dolls
language English
narrativeBasisFor Guys and Dolls
narrativePerspective first-person narrator
notableWork Blood Pressure
occupation writer
partOf Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories corpus
publicationType magazine short story
setting New York City
style Runyonese

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Guys and Dolls basedOn Blood Pressure
Guys and Dolls basedOn Blood Pressure
subject linked to: Blood Pressure
Damon Runyon notableWork Blood Pressure
subject linked to: Blood Pressure