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The Man with the Golden Arm
de ALGREN Nelson
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Neville Spearman, 1959 price clipped dust jacket minor rubbing to edges, tidy apart from some soiling to the blank white rear panel, bound without endpapers ( as issued), two line inscription at head of half-title, stationers stamp at foot, closed fore edges are soiled, very minor foxing to closed edges, 343pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Elizabeth Fort (cover art). 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 006695
- Título
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Autor
- ALGREN Nelson
- Ilustrador
- Elizabeth Fort (cover art)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Neville Spearman
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1959
- Palabras clave
- American Modern Literature First Edition Fiction Nelson Algren British Edition
- Catálogos del vendedor
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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