Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and lived mostly in Chicago. His life was a succession of compulsive gambling, disastrous marriages and wild extremes – ranging from Texas prisons and skid-row soup-kitchens to Hollywood parties. He also had a passionate love affair with French feminist Simone de Beauvoir while she was living with Jean-Paul Sartre.Algren received the inaugural National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. He died in 1981, shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
12 Ebooks par Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren: Somebody in Boots
Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in …
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Nelson Algren: The Man With the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago’s Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the ‘kid with the golden arm’, Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an il …
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Nelson Algren: A Walk On The Wild Side
Dove Findhorn is a naïve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Qua …
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Joe Meno: Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
‘In this superior entry in Akashic’s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction….Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson …
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