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With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have ...

Algren's last novel, based on the life of boxer and death row inmate Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

Mr Algren, boy, you are good."Ernest HemingwayThe story of a naïve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas, in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. A Walk in the Wild Side is a large-hearted, funny, angry, lonely masterpiece, a book that has captured the imaginations of every generation since it first appeared in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised inLou Reed's classic song."Deserves to be read by every Catch-22 and C...

Once you've become a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real." Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary ...

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The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work.A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissoluti...

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were sing...

A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual, " while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A lite...

Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter Malayasia Mail, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba and the valu...

Back in print, the first novel from literary giant Nelson Algren.

A classic American novel, Nelson Algren tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicagos Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare.

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic is one of the seminal novels of post World War II American letters and widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work.

Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren's eyes for their ...

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic is one of the seminal novels of post World War II American letters and widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work.

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic is one of the seminal novels of postWorld War II American letters, The Man with the Golden Arm is widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work.

A classic American novel, Nelson Algren tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicagos Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare.

A classic American novel, Nelsons Algren tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicagos Northwest Side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare.

The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in the whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind.Nelson Algren

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives.