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A Walk on the Wild Side ("Rebel Inc." Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nelson Algren
Creator: Russell Banks
Publisher: Rebel inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 43696
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 344
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
ISBN: 0862418887
EAN: 9780862418885
ASIN: 0862418887
Publication Date: April 27, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Style Suffocates Substance March 8, 2002
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's not often that a novel washes over you so completely that you cease to care about what's going on, but Nelson Algren pulls off this difficult anti-feat. A picaresque tale of the 'adventures' of a young southern pauper on the road to maturity, it is told in a ponderous, plodding style that strives for prose-poetry but ends up as patronizing guff. Algren is at one remove from his characters, staring at them like a biologist eyeing microbes through a lens, with the fatal result that we, the readers, don't connect with them. To be honest, it was a relief to finish this book; if you want to see this genre properly served, check out Charles Bukowski, or John and Dan Fante.
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