num_pages: 368
description: With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed since. Perhaps his own words describe the book best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."
language: English
title: A Walk on the Wild Side
titlecomplete: A Walk on the Wild Side
characters: Dove Linkhorn
genres: Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 1490
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd