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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 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 singing
something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed
pretty much on that side of the curb ever since."
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of post-war America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys. This anthology contains fragments from his unfinished novel and short stories that were never published or uncollected, as well as lost poems and essays.
Algren takes on Hemingway and the world in this collection of travel writings. While visting India, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway and the values inherent in Hemingway's work. In 'Who Lost an American?' Algren recounts adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan and Juliette Greco.
This is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists and bar girls.
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.
The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. With consummate skill and a finely-tuned ear for the authentic dialogue of the backstreets, Algren lays bare the tragedy and humour of Frankie's world.
A twentieth-century classic. The book that inspired Lou Reed's most famous song. Foreword by Russell Banks. Dove Findhom is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. "A Walk in the Wild Side" is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed's classic song.
"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."
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