Scan barcode
A review by whackboy
The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, Daniel Simon, Kurt Vonnegut, Studs Terkel, William J. Savage Jr.
4.0
I can't find an ISBN on my old Fawcett Crest edition of this one so I'm just listing this first edition that popped up. The version I'm reading has a 1964 pub date.
This was an amazingly well written novel. I enjoyed being transported in time, although only about 2 miles in space. I picked this off my bookcase thinking "oh yeah, that's a neat King Arthur type of fantasy novel" and boy was I off the mark. WWII vet having very difficult times with drug addiction at Damen and Division Avenue in the late 1940s. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Good voice, good characterization, a stylistic zip and rhythm to the prose that just about jumps off the page at you. Read it.
This was an amazingly well written novel. I enjoyed being transported in time, although only about 2 miles in space. I picked this off my bookcase thinking "oh yeah, that's a neat King Arthur type of fantasy novel" and boy was I off the mark. WWII vet having very difficult times with drug addiction at Damen and Division Avenue in the late 1940s. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Good voice, good characterization, a stylistic zip and rhythm to the prose that just about jumps off the page at you. Read it.