Algren at Sea: Notes From a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American? - Travel Writings

This collection of Nelson Algren's travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s.

*Notes from a Sea Diary* offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter *Malayasia Mail*, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba, and the values inherent in Hemingway's stories, as he visits the ports of Pusan, Kowloon, Bombay, and Calcutta.

*Who Lost an American?* is a whirlwind spin through Paris and playboy clubs, New York publishing and Dublin pubs, Crete, and Chicago as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, and Juliette Grco.

**Nelson Algren** (19091981) wrote of the despised urban underbelly of America before it was fashionable to do so, and still stands as one of our most defiant and enduring novelists. His novels include *The Man with the Golden Arm*, winner of the first National Book Award, *A Walk on the Wild Side*, and *Never Come Morning*.