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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 found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind".
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- Title A Walk on the Wild Side.
- Author Nelson Algren; Unknown
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date 1978-06-28
- ISBN 9780313202940 / 031320294X
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 8.86 x 5.81 x 1.23 in (22.50 x 14.76 x 3.12 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects New Orleans (La.), City and town life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 78000509
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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