The Short Writings Of Nelson Algren
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The Short Writings Of Nelson Algren
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Author : Richard F. Bales
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-09-08
The Short Writings Of Nelson Algren written by Richard F. Bales and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although he continues to be remembered almost exclusively for his novels, this book aims to highlight the value and influence of his short form works. Before he died in 1981, Algren had amassed a genre-defying body of work, including short stories, articles, poems and book reviews. The present book features a comprehensive analysis and discussion of Algren's lost literature, including everything but his novels. One of the pieces covered is a masterpiece of race relations written in 1950, more than 60 years before the galvanization of the Black Lives Matter movement. Another is a scathing poem about Algren's transatlantic love affair with Simone de Beauvoir. Both items are reprinted in the book courtesy of the Algren estate. This book also includes references to Algren's works that have yet to be studied by Algren scholars.
The Last Carousel
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2017-12-19
The Last Carousel written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-19 with Literary Collections categories.
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 world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diversity are revealed and celebrated.
The Neon Wilderness
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2002-01-08
The Neon Wilderness written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-08 with Fiction categories.
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 to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedevilled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary originals of his times." Algren's classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent novels and stories. The stories in this collection are literary triumphs that "don't fade away." Among the stories included here are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder, and "The Face on the Barrome Floor," in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death--the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Algren's World War II stories whose final expression would be in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm are also part of this collection. "So Help Me," Algren's first published work, is here. Other stories include, "The Captain Has Bad Dreams," in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is "Design for Departure," in which a young woman drifting into hooking and addiction sees her own dreaminess outlasting her hopes.
The Last Carousel
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
Release Date : 1973
The Last Carousel written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Penguin Adult HC/TR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Fiction categories.
Short stories from a classic Chicago writer, featuring a colorful gallery of bums, beats, jocks, clowns, and smart alecks.
Chicago City On The Make
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Chicago City On The Make written by Nelson Algren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
Presents Algren's irreverent portrait of Chicago--the hustlers' town--which records the character and lifestyles of the Windy City from pioneer days through Prohibition and the reign of Richard Daley
A Walk On The Wild Side
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2010-08-31
A Walk On The Wild Side written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Dove Findhorn is a naïve 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.
Algren At Sea
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Algren At Sea written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Travel categories.
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 values inherent in Hemingway’s stories as he visits the ports of Pusan, Kowloon, Bombay, and Calcutta. Who Lost an American? is a whirlwind spin through Paris and Playboy clubs, New York publishing and Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago, as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, and Juliette Gréco.
Nelson Algren
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Author : Bettina Drew
language : en
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Release Date : 1989
Nelson Algren written by Bettina Drew and has been published by Putnam Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Novelists, American categories.
"Ernest Hemingway predicted that he would 'rank among our best American novelists.' Malcolm Cowley hailed him as Carl Sandburg's successor, dubbing him 'the poet of the Chicago slums.' In A 1950 his classic novel The Man with the Golden Arm earned him the first National Book Award; in 1974 he received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--an honor previously bestowed on only Nabokov, Mann, Huxley, Dreiser, Hemingway, and O'Hara. And the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir pledged her eternal love in a transatlantic affair that was one of the century's most romantic and passionate. Yet until now, Nelson Algren, the Chicago-born author of five novels, several short-story collections and travelogues, and countless essays and poems, has never been the subject of a biography. He was a man whose life was marked by compulsive gambling, disastrous marriages, and incredible extremes--from Sartre's Paris coterie to a Texas jail cell, from Hollywood parties to skid-row soup kitchens, from literary celebration to public censorship. Playing out his youthful ambition to become 'the American Gorky,' Algren made himself a voice for the lost and despised--addict, prostitute, murderer, prisoner--portraying, with poetry and compassion, the dark underside of the American dream. A Depression radical who rode the rails as a hobo and stole a typewriter to finish his first novel, a member of left-wing literary circles with James T. Farrell and Richard Wright, he was blackballed by the Chicago Public Library, hounded by the FBI, and exploited by Otto Preminger. Still, Algren remained a hilarious raconteur, and whether as wartime correspondent in Saigon or investigative reporter of the controversial murder charge against boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, he was willful, uncompromising, original--and he managed to produce an impressive body of fiction, a lasting legacy in the deeply American tradition of such writers as Dreiser, Anderson, and Twain. Calling upon scores of interviews and hundreds of pages of manuscripts and correspondence, including the love letters of Simone de Beauvoir, Bettina Drew's vivid narrative captures the essence of a complex nonconformist whose tremendous talent lives on through his writing. It is a walk on the wild side, with a man who knew it as no other."--Dust jacket.
Entrapment And Other Writings
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Entrapment And Other Writings written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Fiction categories.
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 vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places. In Entrapment and Other Writings—containing his unfinished novel and previously unpublished or uncollected stories, poems, and essays—Algren speaks to our time as few of his fellow great American writers of the 1940s and ’50s do, in part because he hasn’t yet been accepted and assimilated into the American literary canon despite that he is held up as a talismanic figure. "You should not read [Algren] if you can’t take a punch," Ernest Hemingway declared. "Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful."
Never Come Morning
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-07-27
Never Come Morning written by Nelson Algren and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-27 with Fiction categories.
Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book," said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.