Description
Title: Man with the Golden Arm (Revised)
Author: Nelson Algren
ISBN: 9781888363180
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 368
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm “Algren’s defense of the individual,” while Carl Sandburg wrote of its “strange midnight dignity.” A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
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