Algren at Sea: Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea

Description: Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren Nelson Algren takes on Hemingway and the world in his famous travel essays. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nelson Algrens two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter Malayasia Mail, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba and the values inherent in Hemingways stories as he visits the ports of Pusan, Kowloon, Bombay, and Calcutta.Who Lost an American? is a whirlwind spin through Paris and Playboy clubs, New York publishing and Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago, as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, and Juliette Greco. Notes A collection of Algrens travel pieces Who Lost An American? and Notes From A Sea Diary. Author Biography 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. Algrens 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 Chicagos "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. Details ISBN1583228411 Author Nelson Algren Short Title ALGREN AT SEA CENTENNIAL/E Edition Description Centennial Language English ISBN-10 1583228411 ISBN-13 9781583228418 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S. Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1909 Death 1981 Residence US Subtitle Notes from A Seas Diary & Algren at Sea - The Travel Writings DOI 10.1604/9781583228418 AU Release Date 2009-01-06 NZ Release Date 2009-01-06 US Release Date 2009-01-06 UK Release Date 2009-01-06 Narrator Llewella Gideon Affiliation University of Cambridge Position Author Qualifications Ph.D. Pages 460 Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. Publication Date 2009-01-06 DEWEY 818.5203 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137830104;

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