New Book
Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author’s only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago’s Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. “It is an unusual and brilliant book,” said The New York Times. “A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest.” This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.
About the Author:
One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved, NELSON ALGREN (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.” His own voluminous body of work stands up to that belief. Algren’s powerful voice rose from the urban wilderness of postwar Chicago, and it is to that city of hustlers, addicts and scamps that he returned again and again, eventually raising Chicago’s “lower depths” up onto a stage for the whole world to behold.
Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren Reviews:
“If the world of Never Come Morning is tawdry and brutal, Algren’s language has a lyrical impulse that humanizes and uplifts. . . . Algren’s passionate belief that the disenfranchised and their lives matter, and should matter, never translates into sentimentality or righteous hectoring. Clear-eyed compassion, respect for fact and a fiery imagination that’s fueled by empathy for the suffering of others make his work powerful, enduring and unique. Never Come Morning is inspiring.” –Irini Spanidou
“Never Come Morning depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawdry but potent dreams, the crude but forceful poetry, and the frustrated longing for human dignity residing in the lives of the Poles of Chicago’s Northwest Side, and this revelation informs us all that there lies an ocean of life at our doorstep—an unharnessed, unchanneled and unknown ocean . . .” –Richard Wright
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