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Waiting for Nothing

A “LOST” US classic of Depression-era fiction has been republished by Scottish imprint The Common Breath. 

Tom Kromer wrote Waiting for Nothing in 1935, a fictional account of life among the homeless, the soup kitchens and the “Hooverville” encampments, which Kromer knew from personal experience. 

It is a bit like John Steinbeck’s Depression-era novels — which it predates — only with a hard-boiled prose that is so spare and accurate it feels close to Samuel Beckett. 

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