A Walk on the Wild Side - Softcover

Algren, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140035656 ISBN 13: 9780140035650

Publisher: Penguin, 1977

Synopsis

New Orleans in the 1930s is the seamy world of lost and lovelorn Dove Linkhorn and Kitty Twist, of their lust and violence, and of their toughness and survivals

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Review

"The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven."--"The New York Times Book Review"
""A Walk on the Wild Side" . . . deserves to read by every "Catch-22 "and" Cuckoo's Nest" freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from."--"Rolling Stone "
"Mr. Algren, boy, you are good."--"Ernest Hemingway"

The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven. "The New York Times Book Review"

"A Walk on the Wild Side" . . . deserves to read by every "Catch-22 "and" Cuckoo's Nest" freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from. "Rolling Stone"

Mr. Algren, boy, you are good. "Ernest Hemingway""

The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven. The New York Times Book Review

A Walk on the Wild Side . . . deserves to read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from. Rolling Stone

Mr. Algren, boy, you are good. Ernest Hemingway

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"The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven." --The New York Times Book Review

"A Walk on the Wild Side . . . deserves to read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from." --Rolling Stone

"Mr. Algren, boy, you are good." --Ernest Hemingway

From the Back Cover

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. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind".

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140035656
• ISBN 13: 9780140035650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352