Nelson Algren
The Man With the Golden Arm
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With a foreword by Kurt VonnegutAfterword by Studs TerkelThe finest American novel published since the war.Washington PostWinner of the first ever National Book Award, Nelson Algren's masterpiece is one of the truly ground-breaking novels to come out of twentieth-century America. Subsequently made into a film starring Frank Sinatra in its central role, The Man with the Golden Arm is a book of rare genius, an unforgettably sad portrait of a community and in particular its card-dealing, doomed protagonist, Frankie Machine, as he slowly cuts his own heart into wafer-thin slices.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley described the novel as Algren's d…
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With a foreword by Kurt VonnegutAfterword by Studs TerkelThe finest American novel published since the war.Washington PostWinner of the first ever National Book Award, Nelson Algren's masterpiece is one of the truly ground-breaking novels to come out of twentieth-century America. Subsequently made into a film starring Frank Sinatra in its central role, The Man with the Golden Arm is a book of rare genius, an unforgettably sad portrait of a community and in particular its card-dealing, doomed protagonist, Frankie Machine, as he slowly cuts his own heart into wafer-thin slices.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley described the novel as Algren's defence of the individual and Kurt Vonnegut wrote of Algren being a master storyteller...enchanted by the hopeless. Both appreciated the book's enormous compassion and humanity and Algren's immense skill in bringing a time and place vividly to life as will any contemporary reader of this quiet powerhouse of a novel.A classic portrayal... stylish, atmospheric and movingIndependent on SundayA true novelist's triumph.TimeAlgren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks, with this novel, among ourbest American authors.Chicago Sun Times
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84195-561-2
- EAN: 9781841955612
- Produktnummer: 1327330
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.6 cm x D3.6 cm 330 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 330
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and lived mostly in Chicago. His published works include A Walk on the Wild Side (which inspired the Lou Reed song of the same name), Somebody in Boots and Never Come Morning. He was also a prolific writer of short stories, essays, travelogues and poems. In 1950 The Man with the Golden Arm earned him the first American National Book Award.His life was a succession of gambling problems, disastrous marriages and wild extremes - ranging from Texas prisons and skid-row soup-kitchens to Hollywood parties and literary celebrations. He also had a passionate love affair with French feminist Simone de Beauvoir.Algren died in 1981, shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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