The Last Carousel
Fiction and Reportage
$51.26
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
A newly designed edition of one of the most worldly collections in Nelson Algren’s repertoire with a new introduction by Susan Jacoby.
“Algren at the top of his form.” - New York Times
The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, the last of Nelson Algren’s works published during his lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world—from boxing matches and brothels to gambling tables and horse races to reminiscences of Algren’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644214831 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1644214830 |
| Author: | Nelson Algren |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
Critics Review
“What an exhilarating experience it is to read Nelson Algren’s new collection of stories!” -Chicago Sun-Times
“It’s about time! When we’ve got a living American writer as surefooted and as fast off the mark as Nelson Algren, it’s almost criminal not to have something of his hard in covers at least once a year, to heft and roar at and revel in … What we have here in this big fat volume is a cockeyed chrestomathy of 37 Algren pieces … with his hallmark stamped on every link.” -New York Times Book Review
“Essential Algren.” -Washington Post
“Very good, fast, funny and tough … Algren, where have you been hiding.” -San Francisco Chronicle
Nelson Algren
NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981) was an acclaimed and often overlooked American author who believed that “literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.” He received the first National Book Award for Fiction and was praised by Ernest Hemingway as “one of the two best authors in America.”
Algren’s notable works include five major novels:
- Somebody in Boots (1935)
- Never Come Morning (1945)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
He also published two short fiction collections:
- The Neon Wilderness (1947)
- The Last Carousel (1973)
Additionally, his writings encompass a book-length prose-poem, Chicago: City on the Make (1951), and several collections of reportage. Nelson Algren died on May 9, 1981, shortly after being appointed a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
COLIN ASHER is the author of Never a Lovely so Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren (2019), a literary biography crafted as creative nonfiction. His essays and articles have been featured in publications such as The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Literary Hub.
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