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Nelson Algren's powerful novel chronicles the troubled life of an aspiring musician and heroin addict, Frankie Machine, on the mean streets of Chicago. Frank Sinatra played the part of Frankie in Otto Preminger's 1955 film adaptation. This edition is introduced by Irvine Welsh, with an afterword, written in 1986, by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and lived mostly in Chicago. His life was a succession of compulsive gambling, disastrous marriages and wild extremes - ranging from Texas prisons and skid-row soup-kitchens to Hollywood parties. He also had a passionate love affair with French feminist Simone de Beauvoir while she was living with Jean-Paul Sartre. Algren received the inaugural National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. He died in 1981, shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch . . .Mr Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful . . . Mr Algren, boy, you are good -- Ernest Hemingway Powerful, grisly, antic, horrifying, poetic, compassionate . . . [there is] virtually nothing more that one could ask * * New York Times Book Review * * The finest American novel published since the war * * Washington Post * * A classic portrayal . . . stylish, atmospheric and moving * * Independent on Sunday * * A true novelist's triumph * * Time * * Profound * * Guardian * *
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0857864173
- ISBN 13 9780857864178
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages467
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the 'kid with the golden arm', Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an illicit card-dealer by night. In Molly, an old flame, he sees the chance for redemption, for hard work and success - but the demons that chase Frankie are not quite ready to let go. Nelson Algren's critically acclaimed and enormously powerful novel probes the lives of the displaced and dispossessed of post-war America. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR006681556
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