Author | : Nelson Algren |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
ISBN 10 | : 9781847676498 |
ISBN 13 | : 1847676499 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
A Walk On The Wild SideA Walk On The Wild Side
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.