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Entrapment, and Other Writings
By Nelson AlgrenNarrated by Richard Poe, Ramiz Monsef, Richard Ferrone, Nicol Zanzarella, Traber BurnsLength9h 33m
About this audiobook
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they’d never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren’s eyes for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places.
In Entrapment and Other Writings—containing his unfinished novel and previously unpublished or uncollected stories, poems, and essays—Algren speaks to our time as few of his fellow great American writers of the 1940s and ’50s do, in part because he hasn’t yet been accepted and assimilated into the American literary canon, despite that he is held up as a talismanic figure. “You should not read [Algren] if you can’t take a punch,” Ernest Hemingway declared. “Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful.”
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (54)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Humor
Length9 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byRichard Poe, Ramiz Monsef, Richard Ferrone, Nicol Zanzarella, Traber Burns
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 8, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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