{"product_id":"9781644212158","title":"The Man with the Golden Arm","description":"A novel of rare genius, \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe literary critic Malcolm Cowley called \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm\u003c\/i\u003e “Algren’s defense of the individual,” while Carl Sandburg wrote of its “strange midnight dignity.” A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSeven Stories Press separately publishes the critical edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm\u003c\/i\u003e, the first critical edition of an Algren work, featuring an extra 100+ pages of insightful essays by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.","brand":"Nelson Algren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47564115706068,"sku":"9781644212158","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_02d4688d-32cd-4d08-ac5a-5b96e6583a3e.jpg?v=1771379870","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781644212158","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}