# The Man with the Golden Arm

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- Book: [The Man With the Golden Arm](https://www.bookquiver.com/nelson-algren/the-man-with-the-golden-arm) ([The Man With the Golden Arm.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nelson-algren/the-man-with-the-golden-arm.md))
- Authors: [Nelson Algren](https://www.bookquiver.com/nelson-algren)
- Publisher: seven_stories_press
- ISBN: 978-16-4421-215-8
- Pages: 360
- Published: 2023-01-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm 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....