Entrapment and Other Writings

by Nelson Algren

Book Overview

Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren's eyes for their vitality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583228683
• ISBN13: 9781583228685
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"