Never Come Morning - Nelson Algren

Category: Crime, Novel, Sport & Recreation
Language: English
Keywords: Boxing Chicago Gang Great Depression Polish American Sexual Assault

Written by Nelson Algren
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Bruno Bicek, “Lefty,” is a prizefighter and small-time hood in Chicago. Boxing is his ticket to escape hard times and gang life, but when Bruno doesn’t prevent the brutal gang rape of his girlfriend, Steffi, it tears them apart, their worlds changed forever. Bruno is sent to jail and Steffi to a brothel governed by the brutality of a local crime boss, The Barber. Sinister and dark, The Barber controls Steffi and has no intention of letting her go. Why should he, when he holds all the cards? Bruno and Steffi, who dream of breaking free, learn this in the end and find that for them there will be no bright morning.

1962 Author’s Preface is read at the end of the narration

July 13 2009
10 hrs and 31 mins