{"product_id":"the-last-carousel-isbn-9781644214831","title":"The Last Carousel","description":"The fiction and reportage included in\u003ci\u003e The Last Carousel,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diversity are revealed and celebrated.Dark Came Early in That Country \u003cbr\u003eCould World War I Have Been a Mistake? Otto Preminger’s Strange Suspenjers \u003cbr\u003eI Never Hollered Cheezit the Cops \u003cbr\u003eThe Mad Laundress of Dingdong-Daddyland \u003cbr\u003eThe Leak That Defied the Books \u003cbr\u003eTinkle Hinkle and the Footnote King \u003cbr\u003eHand in Hand Through the Greenery \u003cbr\u003ewith the grabstand clowns of arts and letters\u003cbr\u003eCome In If You Love Money \u003cbr\u003eBrave Bulls of Sidi Yahya \u003cbr\u003eI Know They’ll Like Me in Saigon \u003cbr\u003eAiry Persiflage on the Heaving Deep \u003cbr\u003eNo Cumshaw No Rickshaw \u003cbr\u003eLetter from Saigon \u003cbr\u003eWhat Country Do You Think You’re In?\u003cbr\u003ePolice and Mama-sans Get It All \u003cbr\u003ePoor Girls of Kowloon \u003cbr\u003eAfter the Buffalo \u003cbr\u003eThe Cortez Gang \u003cbr\u003eThe House of the Hundred Grassfires \u003cbr\u003ePrevious Days \u003cbr\u003eEpitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm \u003cbr\u003eThe Passion of Upside-Down-Emil\u003cbr\u003eA Story from Life’s Other Side\u003cbr\u003eMerry Christmas Mr. Mark \u003cbr\u003eI Guess You Fellows Just Don’t Want Me \u003cbr\u003eEverything Inside Is a Penny \u003cbr\u003eThe Ryebread Trees of Spring \u003cbr\u003eDifferent Clowns for Different Towns \u003cbr\u003eGo! Go! Go! Forty Years Ago \u003cbr\u003eBallet for Opening Day: \u003cbr\u003eThe Swede Was a Hard Guy\u003cbr\u003eA Ticket on Skoronski \u003cbr\u003eOde to an Absconding Bookie \u003cbr\u003eBullring of the Summer Night \u003cbr\u003eMoon of the Arfy Darfy \u003cbr\u003eWatch Out for Daddy \u003cbr\u003eThe Last Carousel \u003cbr\u003eTricks Out of Times Long Gone“What an exhilarating experience it is to read Nelson Algren's new collection of stories!” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Essential Algren.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Very good, fast, funny and tough . . . Algren, where have you been hiding.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOne of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved, \u003cb\u003eNELSON ALGREN\u003c\/b\u003e (1909–1981) believed that “literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.” Recipient of the first National Book Award for Fiction and lauded by Hemingway as “one of the two best authors in America,” Algren remains among the most defiant and enduring novelists. His work includes five major novels, including \u003ci\u003eSomebody in Boots \u003c\/i\u003e(1935), \u003ci\u003eNever Come Morning \u003c\/i\u003e(1945), \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm \u003c\/i\u003e(1949), two short fiction collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Neon Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e (1947) and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Carousel\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), a book-length prose-poem, \u003ci\u003eChicago: City on the Make\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), and several collections of reportage. Algren died on May 9, 1981, within days of his appointment as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUSAN JACOBY\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar and the author of \u003ci\u003eFreethinkers: A History of American Secularism\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), which was listed as a notable book by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Age of American Unreason\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). Her reviews, articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of national publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The American Prospect, Dissent, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The Washington Post Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233693479141,"sku":"NP9781644214831","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644214831.jpg?v=1767740118","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-last-carousel-isbn-9781644214831","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}