Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

tvrd povez, 22cm
335 strana
korice malo iskrljane, dobro stanje

The bon voyage party was attended by such literary lights as the chief junior editor of Doubledeal and Wunshot, a novelist named Norman Manlifefellow, 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 Beauvoir, 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 part of the American heritage of dissent.` His `dissenting opinions` on everything from contemporary writers to the moral attitudes of Playboy Club keyholders make Who Lost an American? a witty, engaging, risible and thoughtful book. It is at once the lightest of heart and maturest of mind of anything Algren has so far written.