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THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
by Algren, Nelson
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
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About This Item
Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this tale of a WWII veteran struggling with a morphine addiction - winner of the 1950 National Book Award for Fiction. The 1955 film adaptation, starring Frank Sinatra and depicting drug use, pushed the limits of the Motion Picture Production Code, which refused to grant it a Code seal. Nevertheless, it was nominated for three Academy Awards, including a Best Actor nod for Sinatra, his only in that category. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original light brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Karov. Green topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. 344 pages. Jacket with mild chipping to spine ends, a bit of wear to spine; pinprick hole to front joint, tiny closed tear to spine. Binding with a hint of bumping to spine ends. Bright.
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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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46406
- Title
- THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
- Author
- Algren, Nelson
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1950s,US American,Books to Film
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