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Nonconformity audiobook
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrator: Richard Poe
- Category: Authorship, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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Nonconformity Audiobook Summary
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.
“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
Nonconformity is about twentieth-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: “Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards … [where there] are still … defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope.”
In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy’s heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.
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Nonconformity Audiobook Narrator
Richard Poe is the narrator of Nonconformity audiobook that was written by Nelson Algren
Richard Poe, a professional actor for more than thirty years, has appeared in numerous Broadway shows, including 1776 and M. Butterfly. On TV, he has had recurring roles on Star Trek and Frasier. His films include Born on the Fourth of July and Presumed Innocent. He is a well-known and prolific audio book performer, having narrated more than fifty books.
About the Author(s) of Nonconformity
Nelson Algren is the author of Nonconformity
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Nonconformity Full Details
| Narrator | Richard Poe |
| Length | 2 hours 54 minutes |
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 16, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094070582 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Nonconformity is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Authorship, Language Arts & Disciplines
Additional info
The publisher of the Nonconformity is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094070582.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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