Algren at Sea: Travel Writings (Notes from a Sea Diary; Who Lost an American)
✍ Scribed by Algren, Nelson
- Book ID
- 108867363
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781583229378
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✦ Synopsis
Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter Malayasia Mail, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba and the values inherent in Hemingway's stories as he visits the ports of Pusan, Kowloon, Bombay, and Calcutta.
Who Lost an American? is a whirlwind spin through Paris and Playboy clubs, New York publishing and Dublin pubs, Crete and Chicago, as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, and Juliette Gréco.