Never a lovely so real : the life and work of Nelson Algren /
"This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters. For a time, Nelson Algren was America's most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. Millions bough...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I: Becoming someone is a solitary process. The story of Isaac ; 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
- II: The Chicago School. Two forlorn children ; Trotskyists, Council Communists, and Mattickites ; At home in Rat Alley ; Morning ; "Do it the hard way" ; The anonymous man
- Every day is D-Day under the El. 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
- IV: Wander years. "No, no novel" ; A character named Nelson Algren ; Sea diary ; "On the Ho Chi Minh Trail" ; The last carousel ; "The sanest man I've ever met"
- V: Exile. Paterson, New Jersey ; The devil's stocking ; "The end is nothing, the road is all".