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Algren at Sea: Who Lost American and Notes from Sea Diary (Book)

Algren Nelson

ISBN:9781583228418

This collection of Nelson Algren's travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. "Notes from a Sea Diary" offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter "Malayasia Mail...more details
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Devil's Stocking, The (Book)

Algren Nelson

ISBN:9781583226995

Algren's last novel is based on the life of boxer and death-row inmate Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Foreword is written by renowned literary critic and journalist Herbert Mitgang. This is the story of Ruby Calhoun...more details
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Man With The Golden Arm The (Book)

Algren Nelson

ISBN:9781841955612

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...more details
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (Book)

Algren Nelson

ISBN:9781841956800

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...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:352

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A Walk on the Wild Side (Book)

Nelson Algren;Russell Banks

ISBN:9780374525323

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:368

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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated (Book)

Nelson Algren;Bill Schmittgens DavidSavage

ISBN:9780226013855

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:135

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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition (Book)

Nelson Algren

ISBN:9780226013862

"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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:135

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Conversations with Nelson Algren (Book)

H E F Donohue;Nelson Algren NelsonAlgren

ISBN:9780226013831

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Entrapment and Other Unpublished Writings (Book)

Nelson Algren

ISBN:9781583228685

"Nelson Algren has been acknowledged as a master of that American Realism touched with poetry, which attempts to give voice to the insulted and injured. He is a philosopher of deprivation...more details
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Never Come Morning (Book)

Nelson Algren

ISBN:9781888363227

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The Man with the Golden Arm (Book)

Nelson Algren

ISBN:9780857864178

A new Canons edition of the modern American classic An introduction by Irvine Welsh An afterword by Kurt Vonnegut...more details
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