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The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition) : 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
de Algren, Nelson
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1583220089
- ISBN 13
- 9781583220085
- Librería
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Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Seven Stories Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Sinopsis
Nelson Algren was an American writer. He wrote his first story in 1933 while he was in Texas working at a gas station. Before returning home one evening, he was caught stealing a typewriter from an abandoned classroom. For this, he spent nearly five months behind bars. The incident made a deep impression on him. It enhanced his identification with outsiders, has-beens, and the general failures that later populated his fictional world. His novel, The Man With The Golden Arm won the National Book Award in 1950. The novel tells the story of Frankie Machine, an addict who gets clean while in prison. This complex tale takes place in mid-century Chicago and explores the circumstances that led to Frankie’s addiction as well as the stories of the community of swindlers, tenement housing dwellers, and drunks that he takes up with. As his life spirals downward, Frankie does not believe that he is worth saving. One of Algren’s accomplishments is that he has the reader cheering for Frankie, and his friends as well. A relentless evocation of life in the inner-city, its victims and survivors.
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- Librería
- Better World Books Ltd
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6170363-6
- Título
- The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition) : 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
- Autor
- Algren, Nelson
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1583220089
- ISBN 13
- 9781583220085
- Editorial
- Seven Stories Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1999-11-09
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