Nelson Algren

The Last Carousel

Fiction and Reportage

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Produktbeschreibung

The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diversity are revealed and celebrated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781644214831
• ISBN-10: 1644214830
• Artikelnr.: 72131440

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Nelson Algren

Inhaltsangabe

Dark Came Early in That Country 
Could World War I Have Been a Mistake? Otto Preminger’s Strange Suspenjers 
I Never Hollered Cheezit the Cops 
The Mad Laundress of Dingdong-Daddyland 
The Leak That Defied the Books 
Tinkle Hinkle and the Footnote King 
Hand in Hand Through the Greenery 
with the grabstand clowns of arts and letters
Come In If You Love Money 
Brave Bulls of Sidi Yahya 
I Know They’ll Like Me in Saigon 
Airy Persiflage on the Heaving Deep 
No Cumshaw No Rickshaw 
Letter from Saigon 
What Country Do You Think You’re In?
Police and Mama-sans Get It All 
Poor Girls of Kowloon 
After the Buffalo 
The Cortez Gang 
The House of the Hundred Grassfires 
Previous Days 
Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm 
The Passion of Upside-Down-Emil
A Story from Life’s Other Side
Merry Christmas Mr. Mark 
I Guess You Fellows Just Don’t Want Me 
Everything Inside Is a Penny 
The Ryebread Trees of Spring 
Different Clowns for Different Towns 
Go! Go! Go! Forty Years Ago 
Ballet for Opening Day: 
The Swede Was a Hard Guy
A Ticket on Skoronski 
Ode to an Absconding Bookie 
Bullring of the Summer Night 
Moon of the Arfy Darfy 
Watch Out for Daddy 
The Last Carousel 
Tricks Out of Times Long Gone