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Nelson Algren (1949)
A wounded vet and backsliding junkie, the card-dealing Frankie Machine inhabits Chicago’s seamy underside in this winner of the first National Book Award.
The author Pete Anderson applied the Page 69 Test to The Man with the Golden Arm.
There is a strong case for Nelson Algren as The Great Illinois Novelist.
--Marshal Zeringue
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