Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren
Documents Algren's journey through the seamier side of American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Notes From a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. While Who Lost an American is a whirlwind spin through Paris and playboy clubs, New York publishing, Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Brendan Behan and Juliette Greco.NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981), one of the most underappreciated and well-liked modern American authors, believed that literature is created whenever the legal apparatus is challenged by conscience in touch with humanity. Such belief is supported by his extensive amount of work. Algren's powerful voice sprang from the postwar urban wilderness of Chicago, and he returned again and again to that city of hustlers, junkies, and scamps, eventually bringing Chicago's deeper depths onto a stage for the entire world to see. Algren is one of our most stubborn and enduring novels, having won the inaugural National Book Award for fiction and being praised by Hemingway as one of America's two best authors. Five major novels, two collections of short fiction, a book-length poetry, and several collections of reportage are among his works. Algren died on May 9, 1981, just days after being named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was an inspiration to artists such as Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme, Studs Terkel and Lou Reed.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781583228418 |
| ISBN 10 | 1583228411 |
| Title | Algren at Sea |
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2009-01-06 |
| Number of pages | 460 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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