In one scene in this novel, a character responds to a series of predictable lies with routine jokes until he hears a defrocked priest say "we are all members of one another". This novel's protagonist was present at that scene due to a comically botched attempt to steal six electric "eye-rons". A character in this novel spends most of her time staring at a nearby rail line from her wheelchair. This novel ends with its protagonist's April Fools' Day suicide, after the police captain Record Head Bednar gets Sparrow Saltskin to reveal that the protagonist killed Nifty Louie Fomorowski. This novel centers on an aspiring drummer who lives with his psychosomatically-paralyzed wife Zosh but has an affair with "Molly-O" Novotny, in whose apartment he beats the "thirty-five-pound monkey on [his] back", his phrase for his heroin addiction. For 10 points, name this novel about Francis Majcinek, or "Frankie Machine", written by Nelson Algren.
In one scene in this novel, a character responds to a series of predictable lies with routine jokes until he hears a defrocked priest say "we are all members of one another". This novel's protagonist was present at that scene due to a comically botched attempt to steal six electric "eye-rons". A character in this novel spends most of her time staring at a nearby rail line from her wheelchair. This novel ends with its protagonist's April Fools' Day suicide, after the police captain Record Head Bednar gets Sparrow Saltskin to reveal that the protagonist killed Nifty Louie Fomorowski. This novel centers on an aspiring drummer who lives with his psychosomatically-paralyzed wife Zosh but has an affair with "Molly-O" Novotny, in whose apartment he beats the "thirty-five-pound monkey on [his] back", his phrase for his heroin addiction. For 10 points, name this novel about Francis Majcinek, or "Frankie Machine", written by Nelson Algren.
In one scene in this novel, a character responds to a series of predictable lies with routine jokes until he hears a defrocked priest say "we are all members of one another".
The Man with the Golden Arm