The Man with the Golden Arm (Picador Classics)

by NelsonAlgren (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $8.37

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $8.09

• New

  paperback
  

  $13.32

  The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. With consummate skill and a finely-tuned ear for the authentic dialogue of the backstreets, Algren lays bare the tragedy and humour of Frankie's world. Features the first UK publication of a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and an afterword by Studs Terkel.