Nelson Algren Audio Books

Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored...

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.

As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career...

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime...

Nelson Algren's 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.

A classic American novel, Nelson Algren tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicagos Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare.

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic is one of the seminal novels of post World War II American letters and widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work.

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 asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives.

Written over the course of four decades, this collection of 12 stories centers around Depression-era Texas....