Never Come Morning - Softcover

Algren, Nelson; Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583222790 ISBN 13: 9781583222799

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2001

Synopsis

Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book," said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.

About this title

About the Author:

One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved, NELSON ALGREN (1909–1981) believed that “literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.” His own voluminous body of work stands up to that belief. Algren’s powerful voice rose from the urban wilderness of postwar Chicago, and it is to that city of hustlers, addicts and scamps that he returned again and again, eventually raising Chicago’s “lower depths” up onto a stage for the whole world to behold. Recipient of the first National Book Award for fiction and lauded by Hemingway as “one of the two best authors in America,” Algren remains among our most defiant and enduring novelists. His work includes five major novels, two short fiction collections, a book-length poem and several collections of reportage. A source of inspiration to artists as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme, Studs Terkel and Lou Reed, Algren died on May 9, 1981, within days of his appointment as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Review:

An unusual book and a brilliant book. --New York Times

The best book to come out of Chicago. --Ernest Hemingway --.

An unusual book and a brilliant book. --New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1583222790
• ISBN 13: 9781583222799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336