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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Man With The Golden Arm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The arm is both a blessing and a curse--on the one hand,it makes him the best stud-poker dealer in Chicago and an aspiring,Gene Krupasque drummer, on the other, it is the vessel he uses toshoot heroin and, ultimately, to accidentally punch and kill hispusher. |
 | | Itwill come to be seen as the moment when the ideology of NelsonAlgren's literature was finally put to rest and we, as a society,began to demand once again that people help themselves, instead ofblaming the world for their problems. |
 | | The Man with the Golden Arm isa perfectly acceptable example of it's genre, which combinesromanticized visions of the poor with Left Wing polemic, perhapsbetter than most. |
| www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1583220070 (1502 words) |
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