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 addicti... more »on."
Winner of the 1st National Book Award, and made into a movie directed my Otto Preminger« less