by Nelson Algren · Seven Stories Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781888363210
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«The Neon Wilderness» is Nelson Algren's short story collection, published by Seven Stories Pr in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Stories set in urban Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, featuring poor characters, criminals, and dreamers living on the margins of the American dream. Includes stories such as «A Bottle of Milk for Mother» and World War II tales that would later reappear in Algren's novels.
This 1997 edition includes an introduction by Tom Carson, an epilogue by Studs Terkel, and The Paris Review interview that Terry Southern conducted with Algren.
For readers interested in the literary short story and twentieth-century American narrative, and as a gateway to Nelson Algren's work.
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
