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BooksAlong toward the end of his morbidly engrossing and brilliantly written novel, A Walk on the Wild Side (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, $4.50), author Nelson Algren says of his characters, "Hardly a stone so small but was big enough to trip them up and when they fell they fell all the way ... They slept only with women whose troubles were worse than their own. In jail or out, they were forever shaking somebody else's jolt, copping somebody else's plea, serving somebody else's time ... Lover...