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Algren : a life / Mary Wisniewski.
LIBRA PS3501.L4625 Z95 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wisniewski, Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.
- Algren, Nelson.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Algren: A Life is a new biography of Chicago writer Nelson Algren, author of The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side, Never Come Morning, multiple short stories, and travel essays"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Childhood days
- College and the crash
- Prison and somebody in boots
- Marriage and the WPA
- Polonia and never come morning
- Polonia's revenge and Private Abraham
- Beloved local youth
- Golden years
- The walls begin to close
- The nonconformist
- Return of the native
- Good-bye to fiction
- Good-bye to Chicago
- Knitted backwards.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781613735329
- 1613735324
- OCLC:
- 944408123
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