Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side
Authors
Algren, Nelson
Publisher
Canongate Books
Tags
classics
ISBN
9781847676498
Date
1956-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.36 MB
Lang
en
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Dove Findhorn is a na ve country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. A Walk in the Wild Side is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed?'s classic song.