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Title	:	The Man With the Golden Arm
Author	:	Nelson Algren
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	50th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	November 9th 1999 by Seven Stories Press (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

The Man With the Golden Arm Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.

Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so daring a theme as a man's struggle against dope addiction.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, the bestseller on which Otto Preminger based his magnificent motion picture, is "a true novelist's triumph." -TIME

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Original Title:	The Man with the Golden Arm
ISBN:	1583220089 (ISBN13: 9781583220085)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Frankie Majcinek, Sophie Majcinek, Sparrow Saltskin, Niftie Louie Fomorowsky, Molly Novotny
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois,1948(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1950)

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"Blackmail and terrorism, incest and pauperism, embezzlement and horse theft, tampering and procuring, abduction and quackery, adultery and mackery." "That was the way things were because that was how things had always been. Which was why they could never be any different." "'He's like me,' Frankie explained, 'never drinks. Unless he's alone or with somebody.'""Faces bloody as raw pork ground slowly in the great city's grinder; faces like burst white bags, one with eyes like some dying hen's and

I can't believe I've put off reading Algren for so long. I had no idea what a brilliant writer he was. Not to mention, as a born and raised Chicagoan, 3rd generation Pole, and having lived in Ukrainian Village for a spell, I have a special appreciation for his descriptions of post WWII Chicago and his masterful use of the vernacular. The image of Piggy-O's bleeding gums turning the froth of his beer pink is one I can't erase from my mind and I love the quote about "the great, secret and special

The old American myth is that if we work hard and have a properly optimistic attitude, the world is at our fingertips. Life is good and good for you in God's Country. This is bullshit.And Nelson Algren, at the height of the McCarthy Era, had the courage to say so. His are the stories of all the American dreamers who lost out. While the story drags a bit at time, it's still compelling. Algren breaks up the storyline with long, poetically gorgeous ruminations about sociology, psychology, and what

A bleak tale of wretched lives in post-WWII Polish Chicago, in the shadow of drug abuse (which drug is never exactly stated, heroin maybe?) The writing occasionally becomes mawkish, bringing to mind Oscar Wilde's line about Little Dorritt. All the characters live beyond hope or growth, neglected and just hoping to get by. You might read this as social critique, but Algren is mostly content to just wallow in the pathos of it all. It does not, of course, end well. The writing is stirring in parts,

Listen up, those of you who loved Hard Rain Falling. Carpenter's good, but as far as I can tell from just reading one book from each of them, Carpenter owes just about everything he's got to Algren.The Man With the Golden Arm follows Frankie Machine, morphine-addict and sometime card-dealer, on a slow path of dissolution--my favorite kind of path. It's similar to Infinite Jest in its sober and sobering study of addiction and the cycle of poverty, and I have a hard time believing Sergeant

This book is a powerful...well, everything. There is great power in the story, such that you will fall down a dark hole. I could read a book like this at a rock concert and not hear a note. The world is so fully realized that, while I was reading, whatever was going on around me disappeared. I was there!There is a strong indictment against poverty, but the stronger message was against alcohol. Algren's written a time capsule for those of us born after the negative effects of drink were

After the Second World War many American veterans came back from the war with a life full of prosperity, but not poor doomed Frankie "Machine" Majcinek, his deck of cards did not hold the American Dream, a dream that's unreachable for far too many, a great lie.