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A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
Booksplease Price: £12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525323Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren 9781644212165
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212165Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Entrapment And Other Writings by Nelson Algren
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228685Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Somebody In Boots by Nelson Algren 9781632460431
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460431Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig... -
The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212158Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210444Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
The Devil's Stocking Nelson Algren 9781583226995
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226995Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
A Walk On The Wild Side Nelson Algren 9781841956800
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95With an introduction by Richard FlanaganDove Findhorn is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes,... -
Conversations with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue 9780226013831
Booksplease Price: £30.18In this collection of conversations, Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humour, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. He discusses everything from... -
A Walk on the Wild Side. by Nelson Algren 9780313202940
Booksplease Price: £76.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorgren /f NelsonBook InformationISBN 9780313202940Format HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Praeger Publishers... -
The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren 9781841955612
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that... -
The Man With The Golden Arm: 50th Anniversay Edition by Nelson Algren
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award 1950.Book InformationISBN 9781583220085Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren by Simone de Beauvoir 9781565845602
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.03In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty years and four continents in an era... -
Algren at Sea: Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings Nelson Algren 9781583228418
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228418Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other Literature by Richard F. Bales 9781476681320
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.02Nelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer, known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although Nelson Algren continues to be... -
Wilderness City: The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman by Ted Clontz 9780415803076
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of... -
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir 9780393318838
Booksplease Price: £16.24In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around... -
Algren: A Life by Mary Wisniewski 9781613735329
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.74Chicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year (2017) Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography (2017) A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most... -
U.S.a. by John Dos Passos
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.92'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'Wonderful and extraordinary'Robert McCrum, Observer'No novelist in America has written more sombrely of the dangers to individual... -
The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore Richard Schweid 9780226260471
Booksplease Price: £15.82Skittering figures of urban legend - and a ubiquitous reality - cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex... -
The Age of Happy Problems by Herbert Gold
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52In his first book of non-fiction, originally published in 1962, Herbert Gold explores some not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of "mass destruction, mass inertia, mass everything."... -
Sociology as an Art Form Robert Nisbet 9780765807564
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08"One of our most original social thinkers," according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong... -
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s'... -
![The Loop: The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon 9780809338108](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2093665/2093122/9780809338108__33863.1708776209.jpg?c=1 "The Loop: The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon 9780809338108")
The Loop: The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon 9780809338108
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The structure that anchors Chicago.Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about... -
Richard Brautigan by Marc Chenetier 9780367347260
Booksplease Price: £91.09Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was... -
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of... -
Feminist Writings by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and... -
Feminist Writings, Volume 1 by Simone De Beauvoir 9780252085925
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and... -
Mysterious Chicago: History at Its Coolest by Adam Selzer 9781510713420
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.00From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City's quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved... -
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...It... -
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel by Carla Cappetti 9780231081290
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of... -
The Great Perhaps: A Novel by Joe Meno 9780393304565
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.65The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.About the AuthorWinner of a Nelson... -
Culture, the Arts, and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice by Ian Peddie 9781032441399
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyses the writers... -
Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 by Chris Vials 9781617038389
Booksplease Price: £31.89Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake ""America."" The literary and artistic... -
Send Down the Rain: New from the author of The Mountains Between Us and the New York Times bestseller Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Can two people brought together by desperate circumstances help one another heal, and maybe even begin a new life? New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin's Send Down the Rain answers the... -
A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval 9781642591033
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.39Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly... -
River Angel Manette Ansay (Author) 9780749079710
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.30Many citizens of Ambient, Wisconsin, believe the old tales of an angel living in the Onion River that runs through the heart of their town. So when Gabriel Carpenter vanishes one night at the river's... -
The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television by David L. Moody 9780739188378
Booksplease Price: £86.43The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and... -
Subcortical by Lee Conell 9781421424224
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £12.41Lee Conell's linguistically deft stories examine the permeability between the real and the imagined, the stories buried beneath the surface and the stories by which we live our lives. In the title... -
The Book Of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning by Peter Trachtenberg 9780316158794
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.92What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? Why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that happens to other...