The man with the golden arm
a novel
Polish Americans
Gamblers
Fiction, urban
Inner cities
Chicago (ill.), fiction
Gambling
Drug addicts
Criminals, fiction
Portraits
Poor
Criminals
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
City and town life
Fiction, general
Social life and customs
Fiction
"A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm has been called "Algren's most satisfying work." It describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into water-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be th…
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