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The man with the golden arm

Algren, NelsonTerkel, Studs(Afterword by)Vonnegut, Kurt(Afterword by)Vonnegut, Kurt(Introduction by)Welsh, Irvine(Introduction by)
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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.

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Canongate Canons
0857864173 / 9780857864178
Paperback / softback
813.52
05/07/2012
United Kingdom
English
Classics
467 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Published in Scotland. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949; London: Spearman, 1959.