"This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good."--Ernest Hemingway"Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks . . . among our best American authors."--"Chicago Sun-Times"""The Devil's Stocking" is clearly vintage Algren. . . . He] seems not to have aged but only matured and to be, as never before, in firm possession of his subject. His language throughout the novel is precise, controlled, almost entirely free of the lush lyrical excesses of the past, but nonetheless genuinely warm and alive. The story is recognizable as belonging in the classic Algren repertoire, yet is also freshly conceived and carried forward with an easy assurance that indicates Algren had it in him to write five or six more novels in the same vein."--"The New York Times Book Review""The Devil's Stocking" is the...
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