The man with the golden arm
Algren, Nelson, 1909-19812005
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Merging a European literary sensibility with American naturalist social protest, Algren depicts America's third person society. A state where the lower classes are exploited and dehumanised, and where the sordid is no longer seen as shocking or abnormal.
Main title:
The man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2005.
Collation:
xi, 467 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949; London: Spearman, 1959.
Awards:
National Book Award
ISBN:
9781841955612 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
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BRN:
852250
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