Description: A newly designed edition of one of the most worldly collections in Nelson Algren's repertoire with a new introduction by Colin Asher.
"Algren at the top of his form."--New York TimesThe fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, the last of Nelson Algren's works published during his lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world--from boxing matches and brothels to gambling tables and horse races to reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diverse range of interests are revealed and celebrated through his gritty and unabridged accounts of the vagabond lifestyle.
Review Quotes: "What an exhilarating experience it is to read Nelson Algren's new collection of stories!" -Chicago Sun-Times
"It's about time! When we've got a living American writer as surefooted and as fast off the mark as Nelson Algren, it's almost criminal not to have something of his hard in covers at least once a year, to heft and roar at and revel in . . . What we have here in this big fat volume is a cockeyed chrestomathy of 37 Algren pieces . . . with his hallmark stamped on every link." -New York Times Book Review
"Essential Algren." -Washington Post
"Very good, fast, funny and tough . . . Algren, where have you been hiding." -San Francisco Chronicle