The Devil's Stocking (Paperback)

Nelson Algren

ISBN 10: 1583226990 / ISBN 13: 9781583226995

Published by Seven Stories Press,U.S., New York, 2006

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Paperback. Algren's last novel is based on the life of boxer and death-row inmate Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Foreword is written by renowned literary critic and journalist Herbert Mitgang. This is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, and con artists and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity, which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren's last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity, which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, this is the last novel by Nelson Algren. Including a foreword by literary critic and journalist Herbert Mitgang, this story is based on the life of boxer and death-row inmate Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil's Stocking (Paperback)
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S., New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583226990
• ISBN 13: 9781583226995
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren’s last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career.

About the Author

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.