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A Walk on the Wild Side ("Rebel Inc." Classics)

By: Nelson Algren
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rebel inc.
ISBN: 0862418887
ISBN-13: 9780862418885
Released: 27 Apr 1999
RRP: £6.99
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Style Suffocates Substance - By: , 08 Mar 2002
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 & Dan Fante.