As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, 'The Neon Wilderness is the pivo...
'Mr Algren, boy, you are good.'Ernest HemingwayThe story of a naïve country boy who busts out of ...
Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a mo...
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously...
Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great...
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voic...
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing W...
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing W...
Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such...
Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel con...
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-de...
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street i...