The Man With the Golden Arm
Published on 4. June 2009
480 pages
978-1-84767-642-9 (ISBN)
Description
Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the 'kid with the golden arm', Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an illicit card-dealer by night. In Molly, an old flame, he sees the chance for redemption, for hard work and success - but the demons that chase Frankie are not quite ready to let go.
Nelson Algren's critically acclaimed and enormously powerful novel probes the lives of the displaced and dispossessed of post-war America.
Nelson Algren's critically acclaimed and enormously powerful novel probes the lives of the displaced and dispossessed of post-war America.
Reviews / Votes
This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch . . .Mr Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful . . . Mr Algren, boy, you are good -- Ernest Hemingway Powerful, grisly, antic, horrifying, poetic, compassionate . . . [there is] virtually nothing more that one could ask * * New York Times Book Review * * The finest American novel published since the war * * Washington Post * * A classic portrayal . . . stylish, atmospheric and moving * * Independent on Sunday * * A true novelist's triumph * * Time * * Profound * * Guardian * *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-642-9 (9781847676429)
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Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and lived mostly in Chicago. His life was a succession of compulsive gambling, disastrous marriages and wild extremes - ranging from Texas prisons and skid-row soup-kitchens to Hollywood parties. He also had a passionate love affair with French feminist Simone de Beauvoir while she was living with Jean-Paul Sartre.
Algren received the inaugural National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. He died in 1981, shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Algren received the inaugural National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. He died in 1981, shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Algren As I Knew Him Kurt Vonnegut
- Introduction
- The Man With the Golden Arm
- Part One: Rumors of Evening
- Epigraph
- The captain never drank
- Part Two: Act of Contrition
- Epigraph
- Frankie lived by day
- Witness Sheet
- Epitaph: The Man With the Golden Arm
- Afterword: Glassesstuds Terkel
- Praise
- About the Author
- Copyright
