University Of Chicago Press, August 1987. Soft Cover. 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, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words..... More
Seven Stories Press, April 1997. Paper Back. 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..... More
Seven Stories Press, January 1997. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Doubleday, 1949. Hardcover. Lightly shaken in heavily and toned beige cloth. Corners heavily bumped. Head/tail of spine heavily rubbed and frayed. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Endpapers toned with moderate transference. Page edges soiled. Interior clean and unmarked. 1949 on title page and copyright page, no other dates. More
Seven Stories Press, April 1999. Trade Paperback. The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 1998. Paper Back. 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 since..... More
Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Sound binding; Clean text; Moderate wear to covers and spine from previous use w/ some chipping/creasing present. More
