The Devil's Stocking
New York: The Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana, (1983).
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First edition. Light soiling on the edges else fine in fine, lightly age-toned dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.
Item #105443
ISBN: 0877955476
Nelson Algren
birth name: Nelson Ahlgren Abraham
born: 3/28/1909
died: 5/9/1981
Biography
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