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Chicago: City on the Make (Illinois)
Marvelous prose paean for the city by the lake: Although I have lived in Chicago for many years now, I am not a native Chicagoan, and I have to say that the attitudes and visions of Chicago that one finds in Nelson Algren's are not held by most of the [... more]
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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, ...
Marvelous prose paean for the city by the lake: Although I have lived in Chicago for many years now, I am not a native Chicagoan, and I have to say that the attitudes and visions of Chicago that one finds in Nelson Algren's are not held by most of the [... more]
$17.00
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Conversations with Nelson Algren
Wonderful insight for Algren fans: A fascinating transcript of conversations, circa 1962-64, with my literary hero. Algren discusses his life, his books, the literary establishment and the world at large with his usual combination of humor, swagger and [... more]
$15.00
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A Walk on the Wild Side.
Not exactly an uplifting read: I've read this book twice now. First in college for a literature class, and again 8 years later. Both times it depressed me. Granted, that is the book's purpose. To provide a realistic and tragic glimpse into the lives of [... more]
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A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel
Not exactly an uplifting read: I've read this book twice now. First in college for a literature class, and again 8 years later. Both times it depressed me. Granted, that is the book's purpose. To provide a realistic and tragic glimpse into the lives of [... more]
$15.00
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A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
Amazon.com Review: Simone de Beauvoir met Nelson Algren in Chicago in February 1947, when a mutual friend arranged for him to serve as her tour guide for two days. The attraction was immediate, and within two months they were in love. Because Algren was [... more]
$27.50
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The Neon Wilderness
CLASSIC IS RIGHT!: A true marvel. Not many writers come close. Nelson Algren is at the very top of the heap: original, compassionate, funny, insightful. You know, we read many books, and once we have finished with the book we toss it aside and forget [... more]
$12.95
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Never Come Morning
Catcher In The Rye for the rest of us: I noticed in another customer review of this book that two key pieces of plot information are provided in the review itself. That is something no reviewer should ever do. Don't let that blemish keep you from buying [... more]
$12.95
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The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th anniversary critical ...
Worth reading: I heard the title The Man with the Golden Arm long before I ever read the book or saw the movie. It's a beautiful, evocative title, but it also makes you think of something grotesque: a man with a shiny prosthetic. When I got older, and [... more]
$17.95
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The Last Carousel
Some Real Gems in a Very Mixed Bag: There are some excellent stories (tales of growing up on Chicago's south side in the 19-teens), some very good stories (about bookies, railbirds, and down-on-their luck jockeys), and some mediocre stories (essays from [... more]
$14.95
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Nonconformity
Amazon.com Review: During the McCarthy era, writer Nelson Algren was fingered as a Communist. The author of hugely successful novels including The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side, Algren lost a contract with his publisher, Doubleday, [... more]
$9.95
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Nonconformity
Amazon.com Review: During the McCarthy era, writer Nelson Algren was fingered as a Communist. The author of hugely successful novels including The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side, Algren lost a contract with his publisher, Doubleday, [... more]
$16.00
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