description: Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so daring a theme as a man's struggle against dope addiction.THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, the bestseller on which Otto Preminger based his magnificent motion picture, is "a true novelist's triumph." -TIME
language: English
title: The Man with the Golden Arm
titlecomplete: The Man with the Golden Arm (Classics)
characters: Molly Novotny, Frankie Majcinek, Sparrow Saltskin, Sophie Majcinek, Niftie Louie Fomorowsky
genres: Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 2967
places: Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd