Nelson Algren. (2009). A Walk on the Wild Side. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Nelson Algren. 2009. A Walk On the Wild Side. Blackstone Publishing.

Nelson Algren, A Walk On the Wild Side. Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

Nelson Algren. A Walk On the Wild Side. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

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     Nelson Algren (1909–1981), now considered one of America's finest novelists, was born in Detroit and lived most of his life in Chicago. His jobs included migrant worker, journalist, and medical worker. He is the author of five novels, including The Man with the Golden Arm, which was the winner of the first National Book Award.

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With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed. "I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life,'" wrote Algren. "I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since."

Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."

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   • content: "[D]eserves to be read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels….It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they come from."
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   • content: Alas, nowadays when people hear this book title, they think of the Lou Reed song--inspired by the Algren novel--or the movie with Laurence Harvey, a decimation of the book. That's why it's great to finally have a definitive audio version. Algren's crazy pastiche of Texas Panhandle down-and-outers seems especially fresh today, more than five decades after its debut. His freewheeling style and use of vernacular are channeled by narrator Keith Szarabajka, who breathes life into colorful losers like Kitty Twist and the legless Achilles Schmidt. Those who enjoy the sparse regional styles of John Steinbeck and Anne Proulx will especially enjoy this production. Headphones listeners: The shouting sermons of Fitz Linkhorn, though mesmerizing, are a little too loud. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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   • content: Published in 1956, but peopled with whores and tramps drawn from the New Orleans of the 1930s, this novel is considered a classic. Tragically, it sounds like one. Algren is a gifted writer and a great populist, but he sure does find a lot of good hearts on the wrong side of the tracks. Barrett Whitener underscores our growing disbelief by chewing up the scenery. Whitener never says "Howdy" without wringing a pint of molasses out of the word. Less is sometimes more. And yet this remains an important work. Algren is a crucial link in the muckraking tradition of American letters. He's a man of the people. He's a voice for the voiceless. The Russell Banks introduction brought this listener to tears. B.H.C. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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