Albert Maltz: Man on a Road and Other Stories, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Man on a Road and Other Stories
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- Verlag:
- Alma Books Ltd, 10/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780714550985
- Artikelnummer:
- 11949594
- Umfang:
- 352 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 2.10.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The titular story in this collection, 'Man on a Road' - which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history - is a snapshot of appalling capitalist exploitation from the perspective of a walking-dead miner slowly suffocating from silicosis. 'The Happiest Man on Earth', winner of the 1938 O. Henry Award, is about a man who, desperate to feed his family and regain his dignity, embarks on a long journey on foot in his quest for a job, while 'The Way Things Are' renders the terrors of the Jim Crow South with unflinching realism, foreshadowing the aesthetics and politics of the civil-rights movement.
Albert Maltz, one of the "Hollywood Ten" of the McCarthy era, spent ten months in prison and twenty years on the blacklist as a banned artist forced to write under a pseudonym. With this collection of stories, spanning forty years of his career and including previously uncollected works, his long-silenced voice returns, re-establishing him as a master of hard-hitting but compassionate short fiction.
