A Walk on the Wild Side Paperback - 1998
by Nelson Algren; Foreword by Russell Banks
With its depiction 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" tells, in Algren's own words, "something about the natural toughness of women and men, in that order".
First line
"HE'S JUST a pore lonesome wife-left feller," the more understanding said of Fitz Linkhorn, "losin' his old lady is what crazied him."
From the rear cover
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; Foreword by Russell Banks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-06-24
- ISBN 9780374525323 / 0374525323
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, New Orleans (La.) - Fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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