Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1963.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Top spine-end and bottom corners are slightly bymped, slight spine lean, dustwrapper s spine-ends and corners are a little frayed, shelf-rubbing. Other authors include: Joseph Heller, Joan Kerckhoff, Bruce Jay Friedman, Bernard Farbar, Brock Brower, James Blake, and more. *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

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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

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