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The Man with the Golden Arm
de Nelson Algren
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Acceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Fawcett Crest, 1956. Paperback. Acceptable. 1956. Eighth Printing. 365 pages. Red paper covers. Light dog-earring, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and reverse of covers. Hinges are lightly cracked but covers remain firmly attached. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with visible fold lines, creasing and scuffing overall. Spine has minor rolling and creasing.
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
- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1690561208DPB
- Título
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Autor
- Nelson Algren
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Fawcett Crest
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
