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The Man with the Golden Arm

50th Anniversary Critical Edition

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

By Nelson Algren
Introduction by James R. Giles

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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Jan 31, 2023 | ISBN 9781644212158

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Jan 09, 1996 | ISBN 9781888363180

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Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781609802547

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    About The Man with the Golden Arm

    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.
     
    Seven Stories Press separately publishes the critical edition of The Man with the Golden Arm, the first critical edition of an Algren work, featuring an extra 100+ pages of insightful essays by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

    About The Man with the Golden Arm

    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.

    About The Man with the Golden Arm

    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.

    About The Man with the Golden Arm

    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.

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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

    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

    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

    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 | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 31, 2023 | 360 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781644212158

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 09, 1996 | 368 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781888363180

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781609802547

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781609803599
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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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