Albert Maltz Man on a Road & Other Stories Paperback Book

The titular story in this collection, Man on a Road which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history is a snapshot of appalling capitalist exploitation from the perspective of a walkingdead miner slowly suffocating from silicosis. The Happiest Man on Earth, winner of the 1938 O. Henry Award, is about a man who, desperate to feed his family and regain his dignity, embarks on a long journey on foot in his quest for a job, while The Way Things Are renders the terrors of the Jim Crow South with unflinching realism, foreshadowing the aesthetics and politics of the civilrights movement. Albert Maltz, one of the Hollywood Ten of the McCarthy era, spent ten months in prison and twenty years on the blacklist as a banned artist forced to write under a pseudonym. With this collection of stories, spanning forty years of his career and including previously uncollected works, his longsilenced voice returns, reestablishing him as a master of hardhitting but compassionate short fiction. | Albert Maltz Man on a Road & Other Stories Paperback Book