TY - BOOK AU - Algren,Nelson TI - The man with the golden arm SN - 1583220070 PY - 1999///] CY - New York, [Emeryville, CA] PB - Seven Stories Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West KW - Algren, Nelson, KW - City and town life KW - Fiction KW - Illinois KW - Chicago KW - Criminals KW - Gamblers KW - Gambling KW - Morphine abuse KW - Inner cities KW - Poor KW - Social life and customs KW - Chicago (Ill.) N1 - Text accompanied by critical essays; Includes bibliographical references; The Man with the Golden Arm -- Remembrances. Letter to Joe Haas / Nelson Algren. Arm: A Memoir / John Clellon Holmes. Algren's Golden Pen / Mike Royko. Algren as I Knew Him / Kurt Vonnegut. Glasses / Studs Terkel. Nelson Algren's Politics / Stuart McCarrell. Photographing Nelson Algren / Layle Silbert -- Early Reception. Nelson Algren: The Iron Sanctuary / Maxwell David Geismar. Nelson Algren / George Bluestone. A Voyeur's View of the Wild Side: Nelson Algren and His Reviewers / Lawrence Lipton -- New Views. Algren's Question / Daniel Simon. The Quality of Laughter: Algren's Challenge to the Reader / William J. Savage, Jr. The Story of Decline and the October City / Carlo Rotella. The Heart of the Matter / Bettina Drew. The Value of Dissent / James R. Giles. Golden Arm's Song of Sweet Surrender / Lee Stringer. An Algren Photo Essay / Art Shay ER -