Algren Nelson - The Neon Wilderness - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This redesigned edition includes the Paris Review interview with Nelson Algren by Alston Anderson and Terry Southern. Nelson Algren's acclaimed 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent work. These stories are literary triumphs that don't fade away including A Bottle of Milk for Mother about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder and The Face on the Barroom Floor in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Also collected are the World War II stories that found their final expression in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm as well as So Help Me Algren's first published work and The Captain Has Bad Dreams in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is Design for Departure in which a young woman drifting into hooking and addiction sees her own dreaminess outlast her hopes.
Title: The Neon Wilderness
Author(s): Algren Nelson
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644212165
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/10/2023
Category: Short Stories