A Walk on the Wild Side.

"Although Mr. Algren tells us he is writing about 'lost' people, he does not feel much interest in them as human beings, and so can summon up for them, at most, only a vague literary pity. It is impossible to feel that he really cares about these people, that he is interested in them, that these are human beings he has observed. What I object to most in this book is the plainly contrived quality of this pretended feeling about characters whom Mr. Algren writes about not because they are 'lost,' but because they are freaks.Nelson Algren is the author of 'A Walk on the Wild Side.', published 1978 under ISBN 9780313202940 and ISBN 031320294X.