The Neon Wilderness
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Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs- The New York Times
Nelson's stories are part of our lasting literature. They don't fade away.- Studs Terkel, from the Afterword
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Once more I have been impressed by Algren's talent, his probity and his command of a tough language that he transforms into a raw and bleeding poetry.- Malcolm Cowley in The Nation
Since the publication on The Neon Wilderness... Nelson Algren has been acknowledged as a master of that American Realism touched with poetry, which attempts to give voice to the insulted and injured. He is a philosopher of deprivation, a moral force of considerable dimensions and a wonderful user of the language- Donald Barthelme
Mr Algren, boy you are good - one of the two best authors in America- Ernest Hemingway
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