A Walk on the Wild Side (Picador Classics)

by NelsonAlgren (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $4.54

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $11.79

  With an introduction by Richard Flanagan Dove Findhorn is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. A Walk in the Wild Side is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed's classic song.