Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book," said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.
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Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "It is an unusual and brilliant book," said The New York Times. "A bold scribbling upon the wall for comfortable Americans to ponder and digest." This new edition features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and an interview with Nelson Algren by H.E.F. Donohue.
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Nelson Algren is as accomplished a writer of prose as the English language has known. In Never Come Morning, Algren takes us back to the 1940's to the Polish ghettos of Chicago during WWII and into a dark and seedy landscape where violence, crime, betrayal, as well as loyalty and love are a way of life for the Polish youths seemingly confined therein.
Despite the baseness and brutality of many of his characters, Algren does a fantastic job of really developing them and giving the reader much more insight into these characters than he initially sets us up to expect: their aspirations, their doubts and fears and then on down deeper into their subconscious and into what motivates them to do what they do. And surprisingly, Never Come Morning is a love story as well between 17 year old Lefty (Bruno) Bicek and young Steffi. Mostly this novel is a story about the bad boys and girls of the ghetto and how they're just as human as any other characters in literature. Algren's prose are flawless. A dark book with little humor that takes you right into that seedy, gray world and leaves you just as worried as his characters. Impressive!
