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The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
by Nelson Algren ; Bettina Drew
ISBN: 0292704682
ISBN-13: 9780292704688
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A collection of short stories about life in the American Southwest by the famous Chicago novelist, edited by Algren's biographer Bettina Drew.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Published date: 1995
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Larry McMurtry once wrote that Nelson Algren held the best literary claim to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, though few people realize that "the poet of the Chicago slums" ever lived or wrote here. Yet it was in Depression-era Texas that Algren developed his instinctive need to speak for the powerless--a need that made him one of the foremost chroniclers of the American outcast. The Texas that Algren understood was a world where impoverished people lived among simmering yet casual violence, a world where the law--racist, abusive, and corrupt--ruled with an utter ruthlessness and power.
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THE TEXAS STORIES OF NELSON ALGREN
Algren, Nelson: Drew, Bettina (Ed.)
Austin: University of Texas Press , 1995. 11 stories, mainly written and set in the Great Depression, about Texas underlife. 159 (+ xviii) pages, with a perceptive Introduction by the editor. Ex-Lib: markings include: clear taping on covers, recto and verso, stamps on front endpaper, title page, rear endpaper, and upper text edge; and inked letters on title page. Covers otherwise clean and sound; text otherwise clean and strong.. Pictorial Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/2" Tall. Softcover Fiction. ( more information) Offered by 100 POCKETS (United States)
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The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
Algren, Nelson
University of Texas Press. PAPERBACK. 0292704682 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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Algren, Nelson
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