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Conversations with Nelson Algren  
Author: Nelson Algren
ISBN: 0226013839
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer.





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In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer.





About the Author
H.E.F. Donohue is also the author of The Higher Animals.

Nelson Algren (1909-1981) won the National Book Award in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm. His works include Walk on the Wild Side, The Neon Wilderness, and Chicago: City on the Make, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.





Conversations with Nelson Algren

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"In these conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Encouraged by questions from H.E.F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his complusion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer."--BOOK JACKET.

     



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