Cover of Nelson Algren: The Man With the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren The Man With the Golden Arm

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Book information

Canongate Books

UK

2005

Main

Paperback

480

Standard

318395

978-1-84195-561-2

1-84195-561-2

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. With consummate skill and a finely-tuned ear for the authentic dialogue of the backstreets, Algren lays bare the tragedy and humour of Frankie's world. Features the first UK publication of a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and an afterword by Studs Terkel.

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