A Walk On the Wild Side
Nelson Algren
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Dove Findhorn is a naïve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream.
A Walk in the Wild Side is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed's classic song.
Praise for A Walk On the Wild Side:
‘Deserves to be read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo’s Nest freak.’
Rolling Stone
‘The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the basis of our democracy. His hell burns with passion for heaven.’
New York Times Book Review
'Mr. Algren, boy, you are good.’
Ernest Hemingway
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and was the author of five novels, including A Walk on the Wild Side, and The Last Carousel. He died in 1981, shortly after being appointed a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
