![]() Seven Stories Press separately publishes the critical edition of The Man with the Golden Arm, the first critical edition of an Algren work, featuring an extra 100+ pages of insightful essays by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm Algrens defense of the individual, while Carl Sandburg wrote of its strange midnight dignity. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. ![]() ![]() About the Book A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. ![]()
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