The Man With the Golden Arm Author:Nelson Algren Nelson Algren's devastating novel of that savage, subterranean world of 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 compassionate and dramatic novel of so daring a theme as a man's struggle against dope addictio... more »n.
The Man With the Golden Arm, the bestseller on which Otto Preminger based his magnificent motion picture, is a "true novelist's triumph." - TIME« less