Nelson Algren 
The Man With the Golden Arm [EPUB ebook] 

Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago»s Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the »kid with the golden arm», Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an illicit card-dealer by night. In Molly, an old flame, he sees the chance for redemption, for hard work and success – but the demons that chase Frankie are not quite ready to let go.Nelson Algren»s critically acclaimed and enormously powerful novel probes the lives of the displaced and dispossessed of post-war America.