num_pages: 343
description: Set in Chicago's Polish-American ghetto, a novel which depicts America's 'third person society', a state where the lower classes are exploited and dehumanized, a state where what is sordid is no longer shocking as its sufferers become accustomed to their inevitable victimization. From the author of WALK ON THE WILD SIDE.
language: English
title: The Man with the Golden Arm
titlecomplete: The Man with the Golden Arm
characters: Sophie Majcinek, Sparrow Saltskin, Niftie Louie Fomorowsky, Frankie Majcinek, Molly Novotny
genres: Noir, Crime, American, Literary Fiction, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Mystery, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2967
places: Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows