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Title details for The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren - Available

The Man with the Golden Arm

by Nelson Algren
Malcolm Hillgartner
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Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of "Frankie Machine," a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicago's near northwest side. Frankie has just returned from the federal prison for narcotics addicts in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was exposed to all the pressures, anxieties, and temptations that had put him there in the first place.

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781483066523
  • File size: 415663 KB
  • Release date: June 30, 2009
  • Duration: 14:25:57
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Fiction Historical Fiction

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English

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of "Frankie Machine," a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicago's near northwest side. Frankie has just returned from the federal prison for narcotics addicts in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was exposed to all the pressures, anxieties, and temptations that had put him there in the first place.

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Fiction Historical Fiction