The man with the Golden Arm

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Informationen zum Autor Nelson Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and lived mostly in Chicago. His life was a succession of compulsive gambling! disastrous marriages and wild extremes - ranging from Texas prisons and skid-row soup-kitchens to Hollywood parties. He also had a passionate love affair with French feminist Simone de Beauvoir while she was living with Jean-Paul Sartre. Algren received the inaugural National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm. He died in 1981! shortly after being appointed as a fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Klappentext Canons edition of the modern American classic with an introduction by Irvine Welsh and an afterword by Kurt Vonnegut Canons edition of the modern American classic with an introduction by Irvine Welsh and an afterword by Kurt Vonnegut Zusammenfassung Canons edition of the modern American classic with an introduction by Irvine Welsh and an afterword by Kurt Vonnegut