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"A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm has been called "Algren's most satisfying work." It describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into water-thin slices.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Nelson Algren
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 365
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., Penguin, Cardinal
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781583220078
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“We had two goals in mind for this critical edition of Nelson Algren's Man with the Golden Arm.”
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
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