A Walk On The Wild Side
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the seedy underbelly of Depression-era New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side is a gritty, darkly comic American novel that chronicles the misadventures of Dove Linkhorn, a naive Texas drifter who tumbles into the city's criminal underworld of poverty, prostitution, and broken dreams. Nelson Algren writes with raw, muscular prose that captures the desperation and strange vitality of society's outcasts — the hustlers, the drifters, and the dispossessed. Originally published in 1956, the novel presents a scathing indictment of the American Dream, arguing that the promise of opportunity is reserved only for those already privileged enough to grasp it. Tough, violent, and laced with a savage wit, it stands as one of the defining works of mid-century American literature, cementing Algren's reputation as the poet laureate of the American underclass.
Author: Nelson Algren
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the seedy underbelly of Depression-era New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side is a gritty, darkly comic American novel that chronicles the misadventures of Dove Linkhorn, a naive Texas drifter who tumbles into the city's criminal underworld of poverty, prostitution, and broken dreams. Nelson Algren writes with raw, muscular prose that captures the desperation and strange vitality of society's outcasts — the hustlers, the drifters, and the dispossessed. Originally published in 1956, the novel presents a scathing indictment of the American Dream, arguing that the promise of opportunity is reserved only for those already privileged enough to grasp it. Tough, violent, and laced with a savage wit, it stands as one of the defining works of mid-century American literature, cementing Algren's reputation as the poet laureate of the American underclass.