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ISBN: 9781583226995 - The Devil's Stocking The Devil's Stocking
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1583226990  ISBN13: 9781583226995
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jan 2006

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ISBN: 9781583222799 - Never Come Morning Never Come Morning
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1583222790  ISBN13: 9781583222799
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Jan 2002
Nelson Algren's second novel, originally published in 1942, tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicago's Northwest Side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. More

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ISBN: 9781841955612 - The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1841955612  ISBN13: 9781841955612
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2005
The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. More

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ISBN: 9781841956800 - A Walk on the Wild Side A Walk on the Wild Side
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1841956805  ISBN13: 9781841956800
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 2006
Dove Findhom is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, he finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. More

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ISBN: 9781583225509 - The Neon Wilderness The Neon Wilderness
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1583225501  ISBN13: 9781583225509
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2002
The stories in The Neon Wilderness established Algren in the pantheon of American writers and formed the vein that he mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are A Bottle of Milk for Mother, about a youth being cornered for a... More

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ISBN: 9780857864178 - The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren Welsh, Irvine (introducer)

ISBN10: 0857864173  ISBN13: 9780857864178
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Canongate Canons
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jul 2012
A new Canons edition of the modern American classic An introduction by Irvine Welsh An afterword by Kurt Vonnegut Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the 'kid... More

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ISBN: 9781583228418 - Algren at Sea: Notes from a Seas Diary and Algren at Sea Algren at Sea: Notes from a Seas Diary and Algren at Sea
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1583228411  ISBN13: 9781583228418
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: Centennial
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Dec 2008

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ISBN: 9781583220078 - The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1583220070  ISBN13: 9781583220078
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: 50th
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Oct 1999
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm has been called "Algren's most satisfying work." It describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into water... More

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ISBN: 9781888363180 - The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1888363185  ISBN13: 9781888363180
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Apr 1997

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ISBN: 9781888363623 - Nonconformity Nonconformity
Nelson Algren

ISBN10: 1888363622  ISBN13: 9781888363623
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jan 1998
In this major, posthumous work, the winner of the First National Book Award presents an illuminating, highly quotable essay on the craft of writing, the art of literature, and the relationship of the writer to society. Written in the early 1950s... More