Nickel Miseries A Collection Author:Ivan Gold In 1963 Ivan Gold published Nickel Miseries to astounding international critical acclaim. His first book of fiction, it saw him hailed for his certain and intense vision of the human condition as well as an original style of rendering it (Herald Tribune). From a Lower East Side girl's tangle with a teenage gang, to a traveler... more »146;'s nightmare encounter on a ship to Spain, to a searing depiction of men at odds in a U.S. Army training camp, these stories display Ivan Gold as a master, every bit the writer Mark Van Doren called appallingly good.« less