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Synopsis
Hero Francis Majcinek, called Frankie Machine, returns to Chicago from World War II with a Purple Heart and an addiction to morphine, which he relies on to overcome the pain of a war injury and to numb the guilt he feels for a drunken spree that put his wife, Sophie, in a wheelchair. His wife spends her dreary days making him feel guilty. Frankie, a shrewd dealer in a seedy West Side poker parlor, is known as the Man with the Golden Arm, both because of his rapid reflexes and his morphine habit. Frankie finds love and solace in Molly Novotny, a young part-time prostitute, but he remains trapped in his marriage and drug habit until he gets involved in an accidental killing and a not-so-accidental robbery that bring him to the fateful moment when the police come knocking to arrest him for his part in the killing.
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NELSON ALGREN (1909 1981) wrote of the despised urban underbelly of America before it was fashionable to do so and still stands as one of our most defiant and enduring novelists. The Man with the Golden Arm won the first National Book Award in 1950. His other novels include A Walk on the Wild Side and Never Come Morning.
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- PublisherCedric Chivers
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0855947543
- ISBN 13 9780855947545
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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Hardcover. Reprint Edition. Octavo, 365 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red, yellow, and white with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "£2.50." Fading to spine of dust jacket. Light bumping and tearing to corners of dust jacket. Light bumping to corners of boards. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 6. 1374513. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1374513
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