The Neon Wilderness

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Finally available again in paperback, this classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein that Algren mined for all his subsequent fiction. Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs' - NY Times 'Since the publication of The Neon Wilderness...Nelson Algren has been acknowledged as a master of that American Realism touched with poetry, which attempts to give voice to the insulted and injured. He is a philosopher...a moral force...and a wonderful user of the language' - Donald Barthelme'

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"Since the publication of THE NEON WILDERNESS...Nelson Algren has been acknowledged as a master of that American Realism touched with poetry, which attempts to give voice to the insulted and injured. He is a philosopher of deprivation, a moral force of considerable dimensions and a wonderful user of the language." - Donald Barthelme "Once more I have been impressed by Algren's talent, his probity, and his command of a tough language that he transforms into a raw and bleeding poetry." - Malcom Cowley, The Nation "Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs." - The New York Times "Mr. Algren, boy are you good - one of the two best authors in America." - Ernest Hemingway

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Nelson Algren, one of the most neglected and best loved American writers, won his first National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. His other highly praised books include: Never Come Morning; Nonconformity: Writing on Writing, The Devil's Stocking; and The Last Carousel (all available from Turnaround). Algren died in 1981 within days of his appointment as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.