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Man on a Road and Other Stories

Man on a Road and Other Stories - Paperback

by Albert Maltz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Albert MaltzPublish date:1/6/2026Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Calder PublicationsISBN-13:9780714550985ISBN-10:714550981UPC:9780714550985Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Short Stories (single author)Book Topic:AmericanSize:7.81 x 5.01 x 1.21 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC5AAM7DRR

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Calder PublicationsISBN-13:9780714550985ISBN-10:714550981UPC:9780714550985Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Short Stories (single author)Book Topic:AmericanSize:7.81 x 5.01 x 1.21 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC5AAM7DRR
Albert Maltz (1908-85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the period of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.
Publisher: Calder Publications

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