by Nelson Algren · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421742464
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«El hombre del brazo de oro» is the crime novel by Nelson Algren, published in paperback (250 pages, in Spanish).
Frankie Machine, a croupier and amateur drummer, returns from World War II with a wound treated with morphine and an addiction he tries to control. The novel follows the protagonist through postwar Chicago, among the underworld, gambling and poverty, with a tone close to crime fiction and social realism.
The novel was awarded the National Book Award in 1950. This 1989 edition belongs to the Bibl. Universal Contemporanea collection and includes the translation by F. Ramos Bros.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and twentieth-century American classics, with an interest in social realism and postwar literature.
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
