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Title: The Last Carousel by Nelson Algren ISBN: 1-888363-45-2 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Some Real Gems in a Very Mixed Bag
Comment: There are some excellent stories (tales of growing up on Chicago's south side in the 19-teens), some very good stories (about bookies, railbirds, and down-on-their luck jockeys), and some mediocre stories (essays from a trip to Viet Nam and stories of pimps and prostitues in Saigon) in this collection. The best pieces made the collection well worth it for me.
Algren is one of the most lyrical writers that I've read. Few have written prose that gives me the sense of rhythm and melody in the English language that I get from Algren's best stuff (Toni Morrison comes to mind). My favorite passage in this book, from EVERYTHING INSIDE'S A PENNY -- "My father was a fixer of tools, a fixer of machinery; a fixer of tables gone wobbly and windows that had stuck....Other men wished secretly to be forever drunken. He wished to be forever fixing."
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Title: Nonconformity: Writing on Writing by Nelson Algren ISBN: 1888363622 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren ISBN: 1583220089 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 05 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren, Tom Carson, Studs Terkel ISBN: 1583225501 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 1583222790 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Walk on the Wild Side : A Novel by Nelson Algren ISBN: 0374525323 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 24 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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