A Walk on the Wild Side (Classic Reprint Series). This item is unavailable.
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Language: English
Published by Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1990
- Softcover
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- Title
- A Walk on the Wild Side (Classic Reprint Series)
- Author
- Nelson Algren
- Publisher
- Thunder's Mouth Pr
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0938410806
- ISBN 13
- 9780938410805
- Item weight
- 1.12 pounds
New Orleans in the 1930s is the seamy world of lost and lovelorn Dove Linkhorn and Kitty Twist, of their lust and violence, and of their toughness and survival
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From the Back Cover
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind".
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