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Algren At Sea: Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Algren At Sea: Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nelson Algren
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:460 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Travel writing |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781583228418
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| Classifications | Dewey:818.5203 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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| Imprint |
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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| Publication Date |
6 January 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Documents Algren's journey through the seamier side of American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Notes From a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. While Who Lost an American is a whirlwind spin through Paris and playboy clubs, New York publishing, Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Brendan Behan and Juliette Greco.
Author Biography
Recipient of the first National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Armand lauded byHemingway as "one of the two best authors in America," NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981) remains one of ourmost defiant and enduring novelists. His body of work includes five majornovels, two short fiction collections, a book-length poem, and several collections ofreportage-one of the most substantial of any American writer.
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