Algren : a life
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ALGREN,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/ALGREN,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2017]
©2017
DESCRIPTION

362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781613735329, 1613735324
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"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"--