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The Man with the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First edition, stated. Beige cloth. No jacket. 343 pp. SIGNED by the author on the second blank endpaper. First edition of this winner of the 1950 National Book Award, and considered a classic of modern American literature. GOOD condition. Moderate foxing to the covers, with minor soiling and discoloration. Pen doodle to the upper spine. Light rippling to the cloth along the upper front cover. Minor toning to the paper in the interior.
Synopsis
Nelson Algren was an American writer. He wrote his first story in 1933 while he was in Texas working at a gas station. Before returning home one evening, he was caught stealing a typewriter from an abandoned classroom. For this, he spent nearly five months behind bars. The incident made a deep impression on him. It enhanced his identification with outsiders, has-beens, and the general failures that later populated his fictional world. His novel, The Man With The Golden Arm won the National Book Award in 1950. The novel tells the story of Frankie Machine, an addict who gets clean while in prison. This complex tale takes place in mid-century Chicago and explores the circumstances that led to Frankie’s addiction as well as the stories of the community of swindlers, tenement housing dwellers, and drunks that he takes up with. As his life spirals downward, Frankie does not believe that he is worth saving. One of Algren’s accomplishments is that he has the reader cheering for Frankie, and his friends as well. A relentless evocation of life in the inner-city, its victims and survivors.
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- Mare Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014063
- Title
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Author
- Algren, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1949
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