The Man With the Golden Arm
of Nelson Algren, William J. Savage Jr. (Editor), Daniel Simon (Editor), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Contributor), Studs Terkel (Contributor)
Description
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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 464 pages
- Publisher Seven Stories Press
- Publication Date November 9th 1999
- First Publication 10/28/49
- Language English
- ISBN 9781583220085
- Edition 50th Anniversary Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Chicago, Illinois (United States)']
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