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A Walk on the Wild Side.

Nelson Algren

Reprint of the ed. published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York.

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The Devil’s Stocking

Nelson Algren

Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity, which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, this is the last novel by Nelson Algren. Including a…

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Somebody in Boots

Nelson Algren

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

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Somebody in Boots

Nelson Algren

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

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Somebody in Boots

Nelson Algren

Originally published in 1935, this novel looks at America during the Depression of the 1930s. The story follows the adventures of Texas-born Cass McKay, riding boxcars, living in hobo jungles…

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Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition), The

Nelson Algren

Critical essays accompany the story of gambler Frankie Machine as he struggles to stay alive amid the corruption and drug addiction of Chicago’s slums and underworld.

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The Man With The Golden Arm

Nelson Algren

Set in Chicago’s Polish-American ghetto, a novel which depicts America’s ‘third person society’, a state where the lower classes are exploited and dehumanized, a state where what is sordid is…

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Never Come Morning

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.

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Algren at Sea: Notes from a Seas Diary and Algren at Sea: The Travel Writing

Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren takes on Hemingway and the world in his famous travel essays.

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Entrapment and Other Writings

Nelson Algren

A treasure trove of unpublished writings, including a lost unfinished novel, to honor Nelson Algren’s centennial birthday.

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A Walk on the Wild Side

Nelson Algren

With its depiction 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 tells, in…

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Homme Au Bras D or

Nelson Algren

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Nelson Algren: A Collection of Critical Essays

Presents a collection of eleven essays on Algren’s major work, and offers a range of theoretical and historical readings. These include discussions of Algren’s place in Chicago’s left-wing literary tradition…

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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

Colin Asher

This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters.

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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

Colin Asher

Easily the best biography of the great Nelson Algren, and an extraordinary book in its own right. -Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life

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Algren at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909-2009: Who Lost an American? & Notes from a Sea Diary; Travel Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

Nelson Algren

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.

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Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

Nelson Algren

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.

You don’t write a novel…

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Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

Nelson Algren

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.

You don’t write a novel…

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The Devil’s Stocking

Nelson Algren

Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity, which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, this is the last novel by Nelson Algren. Including a…

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The Devil’s Stocking

Nelson Algren

Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity, which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, this is the last novel by Nelson Algren. Including a…

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Algren at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909-2009: Who Lost an American? & Notes from a Sea Diary; Travel Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Algren at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909-2009: Who Lost an American? & Notes from a Sea Diary; Travel Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Somebody In Boots

Nelson Algren,Colin Asher

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

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A Walk On The Wild Side

Nelson Algren

The book that inspired Lou Reed’s ‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ and was made into a screenplay by John Fante

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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

Colin Asher

This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters.

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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

Colin Asher

This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren

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…

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The Man With the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren

The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den.

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The Neon Wilderness

Nelson Algren

The Neon Wilderness is the vein Algren mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are A Bottle of Milk for Mother , about a youth being cornered for…

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The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other Literature

Richard F. Bales

Nelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer, known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm. Although Algren continues to be remembered almost exclusively…

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The Neon Wilderness

Nelson Algren

The Neon Wilderness is the vein Algren mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are A Bottle of Milk for Mother , about a youth being cornered for…

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The Neon Wilderness

Nelson Algren

The Neon Wilderness is the vein Algren mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are A Bottle of Milk for Mother , about a youth being cornered for…

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The Neon Wilderness Lib/E

Nelson Algren

As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career–the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell…

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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition

Nelson Algren

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…

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The Last Carousel Lib/E

Nelson Algren

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the…

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The Last Carousel

Nelson Algren

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the…

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The Last Carousel

Nelson Algren

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the…

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Entrapment, and Other Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Entrapment, and Other Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Entrapment, and Other Writings

Nelson Algren

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…

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Great American Authors Read from Their Works: Complete Collection

These recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them…

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Wilderness City: The Post World War II American Urban Novel from Algren to Wideman

Ted L. Clontz

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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