A Walk on the Wild Side
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since.Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: The book asks why lost peo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-52532-3
- EAN: 9780374525323
- Produktnummer: 19341858
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 483 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 483
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Nelson Algren; Foreword by Russell Banks
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