3-468: The Neon Wilderness (1947) is the first short-story collection by American writer Nelson Algren . Two of its stories had received an O. Henry Award . Algren received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the same year. The book collects 24 stories: 8 previously published (from 1933 to 1947) and 16 new. Most of them are set in then-contemporary Chicago (1930s and 1940s), in
6-615: The Devil Came Down Division Street" (1945 volume). The year the collection was released, Algren received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant from Chicago's Newberry Library . The collection contains the following 24 stories (with first appearance for the 8 previously published). Nelson Algren Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
9-628: The so-called "Polish-American ghetto" . They revolve around the lower classes: workers and unemployed, drunkards and gamblers, prostitutes and hustlers, small-businessmen and policemen. Unlike Dickens or Zola , their general tone is tragi-comedy or sympathetic satire . Two stories had received an O. Henry Award (and been reprinted in the related annual volume): Algren's second-published story "The Brothers' House" (1935 award) and "A Bottle of Milk for Mother (Biceps)" (1941 award). Two had been selected for The Best American Short Stories : "A Bottle of Milk for Mother" (as "Biceps", 1942 volume) and "How
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