Conversations with Nelson Algren - Softcover

Donohue, H. E. F.; Algren, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226013839 ISBN 13: 9780226013831

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2001

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In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer.

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H.E.F. Donohue is also the author of The Higher Animals.

Nelson Algren (1909-1981) won the National Book Award in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm. His works include Walk on the Wild Side, The Neon Wilderness, and Chicago: City on the Make, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

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In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer.

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In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226013839
• ISBN 13: 9780226013831
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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