The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

The Man with the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren

480 pages first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden recounts the life of World War II veteran Frankie Machine, a card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run not far from the tenement in which he lives. Machine is a morphine junkie just back to Chic...

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