The Devil's Stocking Author:Nelson Algren The Devil's Stocking is all Algren. The wisdom of turning fact into fiction becomes apparent immediately, for the novel at its best brings into play the author's imagination, his stacked and sometimes familiar deck of urban jacks and queens and street guerrillas...Certainly the characters he has created speak for themselves, and always in authen... more »tic tones. The subterranean world that he knew as well as any living American writer is here...Maybe the author is forcing us to look at what he perceives to be injustice in the dark recesses of the American Way; if so, The Devil's Stocking is muckraking in a strong literary tradition.« less