Overview
The book that inspired Lou Reed's 'A Walk on the Wild Side' and was made into a screenplay by John Fante
With an introduction by Richard Flanagan
Dove Findhorn is a naïve 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.
- | Author: Nelson Algren
- | Publisher: Canongate Books
- | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2006
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841956800
- | ISBN-10: 1841956805