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Title	:	Never Come Morning
Author	:	Nelson Algren
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	November 5th 2002 by Seven Stories Press (first published 1942)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature

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"An unusual book and a brilliant book." —The New York Times

"One of the finest works of American literature that I have read." —James T. Farrell

"A knockout." —Saturday Review of Literature

"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

"Utter sincerity and psychological truth." —Philip Rahv in The Nation

"Mr. Algren is out to shock, but he does so without seeming to sensationalize. I, for one, found myself believing." —Clinton Fadiman in The New Yorker

"The girls sitting around the juke-box in Mama Tomek's, the boys playing under the El, the look of Chicago streets in the rain... It is the poetry of familiar things that is missing in the other Chicago novels... Algren is a poet the Chicago slums." —Malcolm Cowley

"A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting, publicly, his innermost feelings." —Nelson Algren

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Original Title:	Never Come Morning
ISBN:	1583222790 (ISBN13: 9781583222799)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bruno Bicek
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois(United States)

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Incredible book- Bicek's life in Chicago as a down and out boxer was really inspiring to me. I want to reread it. I read this when I was in high school.

Edited update 5/8/18I am so glad I finally read the classic Chicago novel by once famous Chicago realist writer Algren, who once was touted by fellow Chicago writer Ernest Hemingway as one of the two best Chicago writers ever. This is technically (as I learned, not from my own reading) his second novel, the first being a book influenced by his connections with John Reed, Marxist ideology, and Communism, and the book (I am told) reads like a diatribe, filled with quasi-Marxist slams on

Found this book in an antique store, it was two bucks, set in the Nineteen-Forties ( a favorite time period of mine), and proclaimed itself "TEEN-AGE TRAGEDY! The Great Novel of JUVENILE DELINQUENCY." Well, I had to buy it. Wasn't sure I wanted to read it, but then there was the fact that the author was Nelson Algren and he'd later become the first National Book Award winner, and the book had sold over one million copies by 1952. A bit of a tough read: Within three-months the seventeen year-old

writing shows a true, unadorned understanding of the subject and the lives and society he is depicting. Nothing Didactic about it, unsettling and grim, but that's how it is, its not written for a calculated shock--that's key.

Poor Lefty made all the wrong decisions in life. This is a stark view of what life might have been like for a Polish immigrant in the late 30s. I'd classify it as a tragedy, but an interesting historically based story.

Normally it doesn't take me long to become interested in a novel, but for some reason that never happened. I was bored. Even though I live in Chicago, I found myself never connecting with any scenes, characters, etc.

(This is part 2 of a special 14-part essay series I'm writing this year, examining in detail nearly the entire ouevre of controversial Chicago author Nelson Algren, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. For an introduction to this series, as well as links to all the other essays, you can click here for the special page at the CCLaP website.)As any artist who's gone through the experience can tell you, it can be humiliating to be publicly spanked for a high-profile yet deeply flawed project from