Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1963.
Price: $18.00
Hardcover. First edition. Good. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover stained, pages browned, spot on side foredge. *Mead* B10e. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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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