The Man with the Golden Arm

by Nelson Algren Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

Overview

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post-World War II America. It is the story of “Frankie Machine,” a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicago's near northwest side. Frankie has just returned from the federal prison for narcotics addicts in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was exposed to all the pressures, anxieties, and temptations that had put him there in the first place.

Editorial Reviews

Newton

This fiftieth-anniversary critical edition of Man with the Golden Arm shows Algren at his very finest. The edition closes with over a hundred pages of reminiscences, letters, early press reviews and recent scholarly essays. If you are to judge a man by his friends, then we should rate Algren high indeed: Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, even Lou Reed wanted to include a testimonial...The Man with the Golden Arm is a great book...No reader with an interest in American literature, or in the sufferings of ordinary people, can afford to ignore it.
—Times Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

"The finest American novel published since the war." –Washington Post Book World

"A true novelist's triumph." –Time

"Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks, with this novel, among our best American authors." –Chicago Sun-Times

"Powerful, grisly, antic, horrifying, poetic, compassionate ... [there is] virtually nothing more that one could ask." –New York Times Book Review

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169720952
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Edition description:	Unabridged

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