A Walk on the Wild Side
Algren, Nelson / Unknown![A Walk on the Wild Side](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/137/1379838/CHSBZCOP031379838.jpg)
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have ...