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Somebody in Boots

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  • Algren, Nelson
    In Nelson Algren

    Algren’s first novel, Somebody in Boots (1935), relates the driftings during the Depression of a young, poor, white Texan who ends up among the down-and-outs of Chicago. Never Come Morning (1942) tells of a Polish petty criminal who dreams of escaping from his squalid Northwest Side Chicago environment…

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