Somebody in Boots

London: Constable and Co., (1935).

Price: $450.00

Hardcover. First English edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Algren's first book. Lovely copy.

Item #104980

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Item #104980 Somebody in Boots. Nelson ALGREN.

Nelson Algren
birth name: Nelson Ahlgren Abraham
born: 3/28/1909
died: 5/9/1981

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Writer whose novels of the poor are lifted from routine naturalism by his vision of their pride, humor, and unquenchable yearnings. He also captures with uncommon skill the mood of the city's underside. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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