Walk On The Wild Side

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781841956800
  • 26 januari 2006
  • 368 pagina's
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The book that inspired Lou Reed's 'A Walk on the Wild Side' and was made into a screenplay by John Fante

"Mr Algren, boy, you are good."
Ernest Hemingway

The story of a naïve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas, in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. A Walk in the Wild Side is a large-hearted, funny, angry, lonely masterpiece, a book that has captured the imaginations of every generation since it first appeared in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in
Lou Reed's classic song.

"Deserves to be read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels ... It's not that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they came from."
Rolling Stone

"The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the basis of our democracy. His hell burns with passion for heaven." New York Times Book Review
"Algren wrote with courage and love against the grain of the American empire ... embodying a vision of truth that seems strikingly contemporary." Richard Flanagan



With an introduction by Richard Flanagan

Dove Findhorn is a naïve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream.
A Walk in the Wild Side is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed´s classic song.

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Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
26 januari 2006
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368
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Hoofdauteur
Nelson Algren
Hoofduitgeverij
Canongate Books

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Main
Product breedte
131 mm
Product hoogte
24 mm
Product lengte
193 mm
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128 mm
Verpakking hoogte
27 mm
Verpakking lengte
201 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
249 g

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