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A Walk on the Wild Side.
A Walk on the Wild Side
Author: Nelson Algren, Nelson Algren
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313202940
ISBN-10: 031320294X
Publication Date: 6/28/1978
Pages: 346
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Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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Liked it. Read it in the 60's and wanted to read it again. But tastes change, and seems a little weird now, but still a great read about life and hustling during the depression in New Orleans. A classic.


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