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The Devil’s Stocking
- Author
- Nelson Algren
- Narrator
- Kevin Kenerly
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 January 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A boxer finds himself the targeted victim of a vindictive group in the story of one man’s battle against injustice in the dark underworld of urban America.
The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren’s last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career.
Critics Review
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“The Devil’s Stocking is clearly vintage Algren…His language throughout the novel is precise, controlled, almost entirely free of the lush lyrical excesses of the past, but nonetheless genuinely warm and alive.”
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Details
- Author
- Nelson Algren
- Narrator
- Kevin Kenerly
- Duration
- 9 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 January 2020
- ISBN
- 9781094070261
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Sports fiction
Synopsis
A boxer finds himself the targeted victim of a vindictive group in the story of one man’s battle against injustice in the dark underworld of urban America.The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren’s last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career.
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