The man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren ; William J. Savage, Jr. and Daniel Simon, eds.
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TextPublication details: New York : Seven Stories Press ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [1999]Edition: 50th anniversary critical edDescription: viii, 454 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 1583220070
- 1583220089 (pbk.)
- 9781583220078
- 9781583220085 (pbk.)
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981. Man with the golden arm
- City and town life -- Fiction
- City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Gamblers -- Fiction
- Gambling -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Morphine abuse -- Fiction
- Inner cities -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Poor -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
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.