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The Man With the Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: doubleday and Company, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nelson Algren's story( probably from experience) with the junkie world. is fine + in VG jacket repaired on verso with tiny chips to spine ends and extremities. Jacket a bit soiled now protected in mylar. Jacket is unclipped ($3.00) A great copy of a historic book. Nelson Algren is the eloquent and compassionate voice fro the meek and the lowly, the lost and the domed of this earth, unchained by poverty, frustration and despair. The Man With the Golden Arm is considered to be Algren's finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefla's gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt cards as if he could talk to them and they could understand, Frankie was tough, but not tough enough to throw the 35 pound monkey that rode his back which was his way of saying that he couldn't stay too long away from the dope needle. This is the poetry of language that makes tolerable the incredible material of lost and betrayed human beings: here is an unforgettable story.
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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- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000173
- Title
- The Man With the Golden Arm
- Author
- Nelson Algren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 343
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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