Never come morning

Zusatztext “ Never Come Morning  depicts the intensity of feeling! the tawdry but potent dreams! the crude but forceful poetry! and the frustrated longing for human dignity residing in the lives of the Poles of Chicago's Northwest Side! and this revelation informs us all that there lies an ocean of life at our doorstep—an unharnessed! unchanneled and unknown ocean . . .” –Richard Wright “It is an unusual and brilliant book . . . a bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest.” – New York Times “If the world of  Never Come Morning  is tawdry and brutal! Algren's language has a lyrical impulse that humanizes and uplifts. . . . Algren's passionate belief that the disenfranchised and their lives matter! and should matter! never translates into sentimentality or righteous hectoring. Clear-eyed compassion! respect for fact and a fiery imagination that's fueled by empathy for the suffering of others make his work powerful! enduring and unique.  Never Come Morning  is inspiring.” –Irini Spanidou “One of the most important American novels that I have read . . .” –James T. Farrell “Like a flare of light! it illumines . . . but in human terms.  Never Come Morning  towers head and shoulders over most novels.” –Benjamin Appel! Saturday Review “The best book to come out of Chicago.” –Ernest hemingway Informationen zum Autor One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved! NELSON ALGREN (1909–1981) believed that “literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.” His own voluminous body of work stands up to that belief. Algren’s powerful voice rose from the urban wilderness of postwar Chicago! and it is to that city of hustlers! addicts and scamps that he returned again and again! eventually raising Chicago’s “lower depths” up onto a stage for the whole world to behold. Recipient of the first National Book Award for fiction and lauded by Hemingway as “one of the two best authors in America!” Algren remains among our most defiant and enduring novelists. His work includes five major novels! two short fiction collections! a book-length poem and several collections of reportage. A source of inspiration to artists as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme! Studs Terkel and Lou Reed! Algren died on May 9! 1981! within days of his appointment as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Klappentext Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance! the novel concerns Bruno Bicek! a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side! and Steffi! the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book!" said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut! Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue. Zusammenfassung Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance! the novel concerns Bruno Bicek! a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side! and Steffi! the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book!" said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut! Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue. ...

Product details

• Authors: N. Vonnegut Algren, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2002
• EAN: 9781583222799
• ISBN: 978-1-58322-279-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature