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The Neon wilderness / Nelson Algren.
LIBRA Special PS3501.L4625 N36 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Manners and customs.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- The Neon Wilderness is the vein Algren mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother", about a youth being cornered for a murder; "The Face on the Barroom Floor", in which a legless man nearly pummels someone to death; and his first story, "So Help Me".
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- The captain had bad dreams.
- How the Devil came down Division street.
- Is your name Joe?
- Depend on Aunt Elly.
- Stickman's laughter.
- A bottle of milk for Mother.
- He couldn't boogie-woogie worth a damn.
- A lot you got to holler.
- Poor man's pennies.
- The face on the barroom floor.
- The brothers' house.
- Please don't talk about me when I'm gone.
- He swung and he missed.
- El presidente de Mejico.
- Kingdom city to Cairo.
- That's the way it' s always been.
- The children.
- Million-dollar brainstorm.
- Pero venceremos.
- No man's laughter.
- Katz.
- Design for departure.
- The heroes.
- So help me.
- Afterword.
- An interview with Nelson Algren.
- ISBN:
- 1888363215
- 9781888363210
- OCLC:
- 519856448
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