Bottom Dogs (Staccato Crime, 13) - Softcover

Dahlberg, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798886011654

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2025

Synopsis

This is the story of Lorry Lewis, whose mother sends him to a Cleveland orphanage when he is eleven. Lorry eventually rides the rails across the country to Portland, then down to Los Angeles, encountering one sordid experience after another. Through Lorry, we are given a glimpse into the seamy side of life in late 1920s America…

“It is the story of poverty, illegitimacy, insecurity; the shabby rooming-house, the grimy street, and the cheap dance-hall with its promise of promiscuous sex and its crop of humiliations and frustrations.”—John Wain, The New York Review of Books

About this title

About the Author

Edward Dahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and with his mother led a vagabond existence until 1905 when they moved to Kansas City. He grew up in orphanages, then enlisted in the U.S. Army during WWI, eventually settling in Paris where he lived with a group of expatriate American writers. There Dahlberg wrote his first novel, Bottom Dogs, based on his childhood. He returned to the U.S., moved to Greenwich Village, attended university, then visited Germany, which prompted him to write the first anti-Nazi novel, Those Who Perish. In the 1940s, he was an important member and editor for the Stieglitz Group, which promoted human rights around the world. During the 1960s and 70s, he became quite prolific, writing poetry, essays, autobiographical and critical works. Dahlberg died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 27, 1977.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798886011654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226