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Man on a Road and Other Stories by Maltz, Albert
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Author: Maltz, AlbertModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 25 September 2025 by Alma Books Ltd (Calder Publications Ltd) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 288 pages198 x 129 |…
Author: Maltz, Albert
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 25 September 2025 by Alma Books Ltd (Calder Publications Ltd) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 288 pages
198 x 129 |
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 Mc
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