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The Neon Wilderness (1947) is the first short-story collection by American writer Nelson Algren. Two of its stories had received an O. Henry Award. Algren received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the same year.
- Nelson Algren
- 1947
The Neon Wilderness is a relentless, never stopping stream of misery: drunkards, addicts, bums, tramps, gamblers, whores, jailbirds, criminals move in hordes… They lived in an unpossessed twilight land, a neon wilderness whose shores the Captain sometimes envisaged dimly; in sleep he sought that shore forever, always drawing nearer, like a ...
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10 de oct. de 2023 · As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to...
10 de oct. de 2023 · As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career — the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedevilled, cantankerously poetic ...
Complete summary of Nelson Algren's The Neon Wilderness. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Neon Wilderness.
As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything...
The Neon Wilderness is the vein Algren mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother", about a youth being cornered for a murder;...
