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This redesigned edition includes the Paris Review interview with Nelson Algren by Alston Anderson and Terry Southern. Nelson Algren's acclaimed 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent work. These stories are literary triumphs that don't fade away, including 'A Bottle of Milk for Mother,' about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder, and 'The Face on the Barroom Floor,' in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Also collected are the World War II stories that found their final expression in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm, as well as 'So Help Me,' Algren's first published work, and 'The Captain Has Bad Dreams,' in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is 'Design for Departure,' in which a young

ISBN-13

9781644212165

ISBN-10

1644212161

Weight

0.65 Pounds

Dimensions

5.54 x 0.78 x 8.27 In

List Price

$15.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

320 pages

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published On

2023-10-10



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