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The Man With The Golden Arm

By Nelson Algren

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The Man With The Golden Arm

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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm “Algren’s defense of the individual,” while Carl Sandburg wrote of its “strange midnight dignity.” A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.   Seven Stories Press separately publishes the critical edition of The Man with the Golden Arm, the first critical edition of an Algren work, featuring an extra 100+ pages of insightful essays by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2023-01-31
Publication Date:
2023-01-31
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1644212153
ISBN13:
9781644212158
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
356 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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