Once you ve become a part of this particular patch, you ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren s writing that you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its nobodies nobody knows: the tramps, hustlers, aging bar...