He is overwhelmed by the guilt he feels for crippling his wife Zosh, and later he accidentally breaks the neck of his morphine supplier Nifty Louie Fomorowski and hangs himself before the police can arrest him.  
The protagonist of this novel finds solace from his life with the 20-year-old prostitute Molly Novotny, but soon goes to jail for a robbery committed with his friend Solly Saltskin, known as "the Punk" or "the Sparrow."  He is overwhelmed by the guilt he feels for crippling his wife Zosh, and later he accidentally breaks the neck of his morphine supplier Nifty Louie Fomorowski and hangs himself before the police can arrest him.  Centering on the poker dealer Frankie Machine, FTP, what is this novel by Nelson Algren?
The protagonist of this novel finds solace from his life with the 20-year-old prostitute Molly Novotny, but soon goes to jail for a robbery committed with his friend Solly Saltskin, known as "the Punk" or "the Sparrow."  
The Man With the Golden Arm