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The Neon Wilderness
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ISBN10: 1644212161
ISBN13: 9781644212165
Publisher: Seven Stories
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781644212165
Publisher: Seven Stories
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Nelson 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 Barroom Floor, in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death--the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Also collected are the World War II stories that found their final expression in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm, as well as So Help Me, Algren's first published work, and 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 outlast her hopes. 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.
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 Barroom Floor, in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death--the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Also collected are the World War II stories that found their final expression in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm, as well as So Help Me, Algren's first published work, and 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 outlast her hopes. 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.
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