“Never Come Morning” by Nelson Algren. Avon 419 (December, 1951). Fifth printing. Cover art by Ann Cantor.
"Out of the Violence and Squalor of Chicago's North Side Comes a Great, Gripping Novel!" [From the back cover]
“A Realistic Novel of Today’s Youth”
“Here is a tough, realistic, yet sensitive novel of youth in the slums of a large American city. It is the hard-hitting story of the violent life and turbulent emotions of young ‘Lefty’ Bicek, of the pals who terrorized the streets with him, of the slick racketeers who preyed on him, of the girls he ran around with, and finally of Steffi who loved him and was betrayed by him.
“Nelson Algren’s remarkable novel is vibrant with the very flesh and agony of life. His vigorous description pitilessly outlines such characters as Casey Benkowski who was the gang’s chosen leader and who sold them out as a racketeer’s henchman – Chiney-Eye Helen who had burned her fingers with love and lived only to burn others in turn – Fireball Kodadek whom Lefty hated and to whom Lefty surrendered his girl without a struggle – and most unforgettable of all, pretty Steffi who had given Lefty her heart in exchange for a promise he couldn’t fulfill.
‘NEVER COME MORNING is a seriously powerful novel of life in the raw, penned in the blood of today’s youth, and packed with the relentless power of realism.” [From the Introduction]
“Never Come Morning” by Nelson Algren. Avon 419 (December, 1951). Fifth printing. Cover art by Ann Cantor.
"Out of the Violence and Squalor of Chicago's North Side Comes a Great, Gripping Novel!" [From the back cover]
“A Realistic Novel of Today’s Youth”
“Here is a tough, realistic, yet sensitive novel of youth in the slums of a large American city. It is the hard-hitting story of the violent life and turbulent emotions of young ‘Lefty’ Bicek, of the pals who terrorized the streets with him, of the slick racketeers who preyed on him, of the girls he ran around with, and finally of Steffi who loved him and was betrayed by him.
“Nelson Algren’s remarkable novel is vibrant with the very flesh and agony of life. His vigorous description pitilessly outlines such characters as Casey Benkowski who was the gang’s chosen leader and who sold them out as a racketeer’s henchman – Chiney-Eye Helen who had burned her fingers with love and lived only to burn others in turn – Fireball Kodadek whom Lefty hated and to whom Lefty surrendered his girl without a struggle – and most unforgettable of all, pretty Steffi who had given Lefty her heart in exchange for a promise he couldn’t fulfill.
‘NEVER COME MORNING is a seriously powerful novel of life in the raw, penned in the blood of today’s youth, and packed with the relentless power of realism.” [From the Introduction]