The Man with the Golden Arm
Algren, Nelson / Giles, James R. 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. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual, " while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A lite...