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    A Walk on the Wild Side (Paperback) By (author) Nelson Algren

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    Short Description for A Walk on the Wild SideDove Findhom is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, he finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. This book has inspired Lou Reed's famous song.
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  • A twentieth-century classic. The book that inspired Lou Reed's most famous song. Foreword by Russell Banks. Dove Findhom 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.