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The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition)

50th Anniversary Critical Edition

By Nelson Algren
Edited by William J. Savage, Jr. and Daniel Simon
Contributions by Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel

By Nelson Algren
Edited by William J. Savage, Jr. and Daniel Simon
Contributions by Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel

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Nov 09, 1999 | ISBN 9781583220085

The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition) by Nelson Algren
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About The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition)

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.

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About Nelson Algren

One of the most neglected of modern American authors and also one of the best loved, NELSON ALGREN (1909–1981) believed that “literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch… More about Nelson Algren

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $21.95
Published by Seven Stories Press
Nov 09, 1999 | 464 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781583220085

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Praise

“The finest American novel published since the war.” –Washington Post Book World

“A true novelist’s triumph.” –Time

“Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo’s, an artist who ranks, with this novel, among our best American authors.” –Chicago Sun-Times

“Powerful, grisly, antic, horrifying, poetic, compassionate … [there is] virtually nothing more that one could ask.” –New York Times Book Review

Awards

National Book Award WINNER 1950

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