Rough And Rowdy Ways - The Life and Hard Times of Edward Anderson (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Times were tough in the thirties, and tough guys chronicled the era in newspapers, short stories, and novels in prose that was terse, hard-boiled, bleak. One such writer was a Texan named Edward Anderson.
"Rough and Rowdy Ways" is the story of Edward Anderson, primarily in what were, ironically, his golden years--the Great Depression. The laconic loner hopped freights, wrote two proletarian novels of the social underclass, looked for inspiration in a shot glass, and mixed with Hollywood celebrities while employed as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers.
When the thirties ended, the hard-times storytelling that was Anderson's genius went out of style, and his family suffered the effects of his rejection slips, unemployment, and alcoholism. Attracted to theoretical aspects of fascism, anti-Semitism, and Swedenborgianism, Anderson became an eccentric unpopular among intellectuals as well as the poor folk whose plight he had sketched too well in prose. He died in Brownsville, Texas, in 1969, leaving a legacy of shattered relationships and two whole, well-crafted novels of a distinctive literary genre and historical era

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1988
First published:	December 1988
Authors:	Patrick Bennett
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-58544-056-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
LSN:	1-58544-056-6
Barcode:	9781585440566

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