A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
...Nelson Algren's best-known (and probably best) novel was also the inspiration for a 1955 movie starring Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine and Kim Novak as Molly-O (and a theme song that, we guess, was played by every high school marching band in the country that year).
New to our reading list.
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