Quinn's Book

ISBN: 0140077375

Author: Kennedy, William J.

Condition: New

Filled with Dickensian characters, a vivid sense of history, and marvelously inventive humor, Quinns Book is an engaging delight from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of IronweedKennedy writes with verve and nerve. His wit, always sharp, has rarely been sharper. He paints a full and lively canvas...Quinns Book casts a lovely light, indeed.-Stephen KingFrom the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate Maud Fallon from the icy waters of the Hudson one wintry day in 1849, Daniel Quinn, a twelve-year-old orphan, is thrust into a bewildering, adventure-filled journey through the tumult of nineteenth-century America. As he quests after the beguiling and elusive Maud (shes fourteen), Daniel will witness the rise and fall of great dynasties in upstate New York, epochal prize fights, exotic life in the theater, visitations from spirits beyond the grave, horrific battles between Irish immigrants and the "Know-Nothings," the vicious New York draft riots, heroic passages through the Underground Railroad, and the bloody despair of the Civil War.William Kennedys Albany Cycle of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the citys netherworld, and its spheres of power-financial, ethnic, political-often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelans Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinns Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.