- Paperback
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0374525323
- ISBN-13: 978-0374525323
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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"HE'S JUST a pore lonesome wife-left feller," the more understanding said of Fitz Linkhorn, "losin' his old lady is what crazied him." Read the first page
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"HE'S JUST a pore lonesome wife-left feller," the more understanding said of Fitz Linkhorn, "losin' his old lady is what crazied him." Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Walking the Walk,
By Paul Epps "Trained Professional - Do Not Attempt" (Irvine, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel (Paperback)
Don't be misled by the title. A walk on the wild side? Sounds like fun, hey? Well, you can walk the walk, but you can't go home again, or if you do, you may be a little the worse for wear. Algren is a poet of pain. Highly recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Algren's most polished work.,
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This review is from: A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel (Paperback)
Country boy Dove Linkhorn, son of Fitz ( hell-fire preacher and cesspool cleaner ),defiler of women, smarter than he looks bum, leaves Texas for New Orleans where he fits right in for a while, with the depression-era cripples, prostitutes, pimps, flimflam artists,and prison-life.Much of this book is a re-run of Somebody in Boots and Never Come Morning, with modifications. Unlike those books, the prose style is Algren at his most polished. Even so he overdoes it on many occasions where a simple statement would have sufficed. But redeems himself by pretty much avoiding the annoying switch in viewpoint within multiple character scenes that mar his other, otherwise excellent work. Nelson Algren didn't write all that many books in his long career, a state of affairs that could be condensed into two titles: A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Neglected Classic,
By A Customer
This review is from: Walk On The Wild Side (Paperback)
In a perfect world, _A Walk on the Wild Side_ would be remembered as Algren's best book, and would be read in American literature classes. Algren is a much-needed antidote to both romantics who idealize the poor and to conservatives who feel smugly superior to the lower classes but have no real sense of the difficulties they face. Its social significance aside, _Walk_ should be read by anyone interested in literary style. Algren's narrative voice--pugnacious, amused, and quietly outraged--explains why Algren has always been read by writers, even if a larger general audience continues to escape him. (While it is true this novel reworks material from _The Neon Wilderness_, it is put to much better use here--read _Walk_ first!)
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