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Nelson Algren
a life on the wild side
By Drew, Bettina
- ISBN
- 978-0-39913-422-7
- Publisher
- New York : Putnam, c1989.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 1989
This admirably researched presentation of the life and career of the Chicago writer most widely known for his 1949 novel, The Man with the Golden Arm , and his celebrated romance with Simone de Beauvoir, is fluidly narrated, closely detailed, and warmly sympathetic. Without glossing over Algren's severe character flaws (he w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
