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Algren at Sea
Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings
Häftad, 2009
194 kr
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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 …
Walk On The Wild Side
Häftad, 2006
149 kr
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With an introduction by Richard FlanaganDove 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 …
Never Come Morning
Häftad, 2021
182 kr
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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 Transatlantic Love Affair : Letters to Nelson Algren
Av Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren
1999
237 kr
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Walk on the Wild Side
A Novel
Häftad, 1998
239 kr
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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, Nelson Algren's 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 …
Neon Wilderness
Ljudbok, 2020
321 kr
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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, …
Devil's Stocking
Ljudbok, 2019
328 kr
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A boxer finds himself the targeted victim of a vindictive group in the story of one man’s battle against injustice in the dark underworld of urban America. The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and …
Entrapment, and Other Writings
Av Nelson Algren, Dan Simon m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2020
321 kr
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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 …
Last Carousel
Ljudbok, 2020
492 kr
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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 at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909-2009
Who Lost an American? & Notes from a Sea Diary; Travel Writings
Ljudbok, 2020
376 kr
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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 …
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Ljudbok, 2019
287 kr
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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 out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson …
Somebody in Boots
Ljudbok, 2019
335 kr
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Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren’s first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great …
Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 2
Av Calliope Author Readings, John Updike m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2019
246 kr
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These four 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 an essential part of our literary heritage. Nelson Algren reads from his most famous …
Nelson Algren Reading from The Man with the Golden Arm
From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 2
Ljudbok, 2019
32 kr
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Author Nelson Algren reads from his award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm. The passage tells of Frankie Machine''s wife, Sophie, who confined to a wheelchair since a drunk-driving accident caused by Frankie. The narration implies that Sophie''s paralysis is psychological in origin, and …
Walk on the Wild Side
Ljudbok, 2009
321 kr
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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 on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed. “I found my way to the streets on the other side of …
Never Come Morning
Ljudbok, 2006
344 kr
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Bruno Bicek, “Lefty,” is a prizefighter and small-time hood in Chicago. Boxing is his ticket to escape hard times and gang life, but when Bruno doesn’t prevent the brutal gang rape of his girlfriend, Steffi, it tears them apart, their worlds changed forever. Bruno is sent to jail and Steffi to a …
Never Come Morning
Ljudbok, 2010
101 kr
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Paul Peditto's thrilling full cast audio dramatization of Nelson Algren's seminal novel, Never Come Morning. Dubbed "e;an unusual and brilliant book"e; by The New York Times, this play follows the gritty lives of Polish youths in the Chicago slums of the 1940s. A Prop Theatre co-production. …
Man With The Golden Arm
50th Anniversay Edition
Av Nelson Algren, William J. Savage m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
195 kr
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Entrapment and Other Writings
Av Nelson Algren, Brooke Horvath m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
207 kr
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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 …
Algren at Sea
Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings
E-bok, 2011
264 kr
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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 …
Entrapment and Other Writings
Av Nelson Algren, Dan Simon m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
256 kr
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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 …
Man with the Golden Arm
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm …
Never Come Morning
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author''s only romance, the novel concerns Brun Bicek, a would-be pub 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. …
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
E-bok, 2011
128 kr
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The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America''s greatest 20th-century writers. "You don''t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren …
Man with the Golden Arm
50th Anniversary Critical Edition
Av Nelson Algren, Dan Simon m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
247 kr
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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm …
Somebody in Boots
E-bok, 2017
234 kr
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Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side . Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren''s first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great …
Man With The Golden Arm
Häftad, 2023
203 kr
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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm …
