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1	Neon Wilderness more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist This collection of realistic stories about the unhappy lives of Polish immigrants in the Chicago slums is, for many admirers of Algren, their favorite work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The man with the golden arm more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist This tale of the Chicago underworld was a critical and commercial success upon its release in 1949. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is the story of Frankie Machine, a five-card stud dealer with a morphine habit he picked up with his Purple Heart during the Second World War. Frankie's wife is an invalid thanks to her husband's drunk driving. To escape ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Last Carousel by Nelson Algren add to wishlist Often compared in scope to the writings of Norman Mailer, these stories are classic late Algren. Reprinted after 25 years, this collection of streetwise, funny stories from Algren's travels is long overdue. His bracing wit, poetic sensibility, and pathos in describing the dispossessed are fully evident. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Entrapment and Other Writings more books like this by Nelson Algren, Brooke Horvath (Editor), Dan Simon (Editor) add to wishlist "There is pleasure of a hard and real sort here even for those who have never read Algren before. Of course, the specifics of his world, of his Chicago, have changed. But the human condition and social inequities he saw are still with us."--Chicago Tribune "Among the most serious and moving in American literature...With these books, Algren defined ... see all copies from $5.23! new only from $11.93! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	A Walk on the Wild Side more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist A collection of realistic short stories that won the first National Book Award in 1956. Set in the slums of New Orleans, most of the stories chronicle the hopeless and deracinated lives of the urban poor during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Prostitutes, petty gangsters, bootleggers, and con-men dominate the stories, which show little hope of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Conversations with Nelson Algren more books like this by H E F Donohue, Nelson Algren add to wishlist In this collection of conversations, Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humour, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. He discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simon de Beauvoir. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $15.46! \| first editions
7	Never Come Morning more books like this by Nelson Algren (Read by) add to wishlist In this story of poverty and crime among the Poles of Chicago's West side, Bruno Bicek, a young boxer and petty hoodlum, gets himself into trouble through a misplaced loyalty to his gang. He is arrested for murder in the midst of his first successful prizefight and later presses his girlfriend, Steffi, into prostitution. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $68.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Chicago, City on the Make more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
9	Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated more books like this by Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel (Introduction by), David Schmittgens (Text by) add to wishlist Newly annotated with everything from slang to Chicagoans--famous and obscure--this book is, as Studs Terkel says, "the best book about Chicago". see all copies from $9.15! new only from $11.42! \| SVS
10	Nonconformity more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist In this major, posthumous work, the winner of the First National Book Award presents an illuminating, highly quotable essay on the craft of writing, the art of literature, and the relationship of the writer to society. Written in the early 1950s, this eagerly-sought project was suddenly canceled when Algren was denounced as a former Communist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Devil's Stocking more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Somebody in boots more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist Originally published in 1935, this novel looks at America during the Depression of the 1930s. The story follows the adventures of Texas-born Cass McKay, riding boxcars, living in hobo jungles, and walking the endless streets of bankrupt New Orleans and Chicago. see all copies from $20.81! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Algren at Sea: Who Lost an American? & Notes from a Sea Diary: Travel Writings more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist This collection of Nelson Algren's travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great 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. Aboard the freighter "Malayasia Mail," Algren ... see all copies from $6.57! new only from $13.72! \| SVS
14 view cover	Nonconformity more books like this by Daniel Simon (Editor), Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| first editions
15	The Roar of the Sneakers by Editor Gold John Cheever Budd Schulberg Nelson Algren Don Delillo Robert S. add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16	The man with the golden arm : a novel more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren more books like this by Nelson Algren, Bettina Drew (Editor) add to wishlist Larry McMurtry once wrote that Nelson Algren held the best literary claim to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, though few people realize that "the poet of the Chicago slums" ever lived or wrote here. Yet it was in Depression-era Texas that Algren developed his instinctive need to speak for the powerless--a need that made him one of the foremost ... see all copies from $8.75! new only from $99.38! \| first editions
18	America Eats more books like this by Nelson Algren, David E Schoonover (Editor), Louis I Szathmary (Foreword by) add to wishlist A book describing regional crops and cuisines, written during the Great Depression as part of a project organized by the W.P.A. see all copies from $5.51! new only from $254.55! \| first editions
19	Lettres à Nelson Algren : un amour transatlantique, 1947-1964 more books like this by Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir add to wishlist see all copies from $82.88! new only from $82.88!
20	Calhoun-Roman Eines Verbrechens by Nelson [Herausgegeben Und Übersetzt Von Carl Weissner; Vorwort By Wolf Wondratschek] Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $125.00! signed copies \| first editions
21	He Swung and He Missed more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist Rocco, an honest young boxer, agrees to throw a fight to earn money for his wife, but his pride makes it difficult for him to lose on purpose. see all copies from $20.00! first editions
22	Notes from a sea diary: Hemingway all the way. more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	Who lost an American? more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $3.68! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters. more books like this by Nelson Algren add to wishlist see all copies from $2.97! signed copies \| first editions
25	Conversations with Nelson Algren more books like this by Nelson Algren, H. E. F. Donohue add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions \| SVS

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