Who Lost an American?

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Author: Nelson Algren (1909-1981) signed Year: 1963 Publisher: MacMillan Company Place: New York Description: viii+337 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publishers blue cloth with two toned brown and beige binding and green lettering to cover and brown and green lettering to spine in original jacket. Signed First edition The bon voyage party was attended by such literary lights as the chief junior editor of Double deal and Wundershot, a novelist named Norman Nalifellow, and Ginny Ginstruck, the agent. Afterward the author found himself aboard the first-class ship Meyer Davis , sailing over a first-class sea. His grand tour encompassed London, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Seville, Almeria, Istanbul, Crete - and his hometown Chicago. This book, however, is not so much an "inside Europe" - heaven help the tourist who tried to duplicate his travel adventures - as an "Inside Nelson Algren." To be sure, there is "scenery" in these pages - London's ancestral mists, the bright, enormous mornings in the Barrio-Chino of Barcelona, the shadow of the Mountain in Greece where Zeus was born. But it is chiefly follies and absurdities, opinions and - above all - people, which give distinction to the story of his voyages. Some of the people are famous: Simone de Beauviir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, Juliette Greco; some are pure invention, for the book is a fascinating melange of fact and fiction. Maxwell Geismar has said of Nelson Algren that he "represents a solid and enduring

• Binding: Hardcover

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