Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalised and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the sex workers and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one. Algren admired them all for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living, their self-awareness, and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places.
Entrapment and Other Writings contains his unfinished last novel, previously unpublished or uncollected stories and poems, and reportage. Algren speaks to our time as few of his American contemporaries of the 1940s and '50s do, in part because he was always the outsider.
| ISBN: | 9781644215128 |
| Publication date: | 17th September 2026 |
| Author: | Nelson Algren |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
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Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalised and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the sex workers and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one. Algren admired them all for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living, their self-awareness, and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places.
Entrapment and Other Writings features in the following genres: Shorter Reads
Paperback, Ebook. £15.29, down from the £16.99 cover price. Pre-order. 17th September 2026.
Entrapment and Other Writings was written by Nelson Algren and published by Seven Stories Press
Entrapment and Other Writings has 320 pages
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. Pre-order. 17th September 2026.