
"There is pleasure of a hard and real sort here even for those who have never read Algren before. Of course, the specifics of his world, of his Chicago, have changed. But the human condition and social inequities he saw are still with us."--"Chicago Tribune" "Among the most serious and moving in American literature...With these books, Algren defined postwar American urban fiction, interweaving threads of social realism, his own leftist politics and noir."--"Los Angeles Times""Nelson Algren has been acknowledged as a master of that American Realism touched with poetry, which attempts to give voice to the insulted and injured. He is a philosopher of deprivation, a moral force of considerable dimensions, and a wonderful user of the language."--Donald Barthelme"So long, baby . . . walk pretty all the way," says Ralph to his fourteen-year-old girlfriend on her way to the wild side, in the last...
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