Never a lovely so real : the life and work of Nelson Algren

Asher, C., author.

Book 2019

"This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and exposes how his radical politics sabotaged his career. For a time, Nelson Algren (1909-1981) was America's most famous author. Millions bought his books; The Man with the Golden Arm, winner of the first National Book Award, was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. Yet the cause of Algren's decline was never clear. Some said he drank his talent away, others cit...

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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981

Authors, American 20th century Biography

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ISBN:

9780393244519

Edition:

First edition

Description:

pages cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Between St. Columbanus and the wrought-iron gate of Oak Woods Cemetery
"Tell your tire troubles to Nelson Abraham"
Stoic. Academic. Ink-stained wretch
The past receded like a wave just spent
"So help me"
"What is a carpenter without his tools?"
Somebody in boots
The crack up
Forlorn children
Trotskyists, Council Communists, and Mattickites
At home in rat alley
Morning
"Do it the hard way"
The anonymous man
Exploring the neon wilderness
A boy from the provinces
Exile?
"Ok, kid, you beat Dostoyevsky"
How long does this sort of thing go on?
Nonconformity
"Riding day-coaches to nowhere"
"They don't exactly give me any medals for caution"
A walk on the wild side
A lightless cave off a loveless hall
"No, no novel"
A character named Nelson Algren
Sea diary
"On the Ho Chi Minh Trail"
The last carousel
"The sanest man I ever met"
Paterson, New Jersey
The devil's stocking
"The end is nothing, the road is all"

LCCN:

2018049775

Control Number:

2664022

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