Afternoon In The Jungle: Selected Short Stories: The Selected Short Stories of Albert Maltz

This superb collection signals the long overdue return of Albert Maltz one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy era to the forefront of American letters. From Afternoon in the Jungle—an unforgettable glimpse of the brutalization of poverty—to the gripping adventure of The Farmers Dog Maltz probes deep into the American consciousness displaying a keen outrage at the injustices of poverty prejudice and oppression. Yet throughout he remains true to a central vision of the essential dignity of man.