Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, "the best book about Chicago."
"Algren's Chicago, a kind of American annex to Dante's inferno, is a nether world peopled by rat--faced hustlers and money--loving demons who crawl in the writer's brilliant, sordid, uncompromising and twisted imagination. . . . [This book] searches a city's heart and mind rather than its avenues and public buildings."--New York Times Book Review
"This short, crisp, fighting creed is both a social document and a love poem, a script in which a lover explains his city's recurring ruthlessness and latent power; in which an artist recognizes that these are portents not of death, but of life."--New York Herald Tribune
"Algren's Chicago, a kind of American annex to Dante's inferno, is a nether world peopled by rat--faced hustlers and money--loving demons who crawl in the writer's brilliant, sordid, uncompromising and twisted imagination. . . . [This book] searches a city's heart and mind rather than its avenues and public buildings."--New York Times Book Review
"This short, crisp, fighting creed is both a social document and a love poem, a script in which a lover explains his city's recurring ruthlessness and latent power; in which an artist recognizes that these are portents not of death, but of life."--New York Herald Tribune
Used availability for Nelson Algren's Chicago, a City On the Make
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Hardback Editions
1951 : Hardback
| Title: Chicago: City on the Make Author(s): Nelson Algren Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated Author(s): Nelson Algren ISBN: 0-226-01385-5 / 978-0-226-01385-5 (USA edition) Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1987 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago, City on the Make: City on the Make Author(s): Nelson Algren, Nels Algren ISBN: 0-226-01384-7 / 978-0-226-01384-8 (USA edition) Publisher: University of Chicago Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1987 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago Author(s): Nelson Algren ISBN: 0-07-001012-9 / 978-0-07-001012-3 (USA edition) Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1961 : Paperback
| Title: Chicago: City on the Make Author(s): Nelson Algren Publisher: Contact Editions Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
April 1999 : Turtleback
| Title: Chicago City on the Make Author(s): Nelson Algren ISBN: 0-606-17022-7 / 978-0-606-17022-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Demco Media Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1968 : Unknown
| Title: Chicago: City on the make Author(s): Nelson Algren Publisher: Angel Island Pub., Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1951 : Unknown
| Title: CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE. Author(s): Nelson. . Algren Publisher: Curtis Publishing. Availability: Amazon More details... |
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