Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings

In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings , the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament. Waiting for Nothing , Kromer's only completed novel, is largely autobiographical and was written at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California. It tells the stor