Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 645
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ISBN-10 : 9780393244526
ISBN-13 : 0393244520
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Book Synopsis Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren by : Colin Asher

Download or read book Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren written by Colin Asher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Easily the best biography of the great Nelson Algren, and an extraordinary book in its own right.” —Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life For a time, Nelson Algren was America’s most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. But at the height of his career, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. Colin Asher’s sublime biography of Algren unravels the enigma of his disappearance, explores the richness of his novels and nonfiction writing, and explains how a rash creative decision may have led his enemies to denounce him to the FBI during the Red Scare. Asher tells Algren’s story in rich, novelistic detail, including his long-term affair with Simone de Beauvoir and the emotional breakdown that nearly cost him his life. Drawing from interviews, archival correspondence, and Algren’s 886-page FBI file, Never a Lovely So Real portrays Algren as a dramatic iconoclast and reclaims him as a towering literary figure.


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