Ironweed: A Novel

ISBN: 0140070206

Author: Kennedy, William J.

Condition: Used

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.-The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Phelan has hit bottom. More than twenty years ago, the ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab left Albany after a tragic accident. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town and faced with the wife and home he abandoned, roaming the old familiar streets, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present. Winner of the Pultizer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Ironweed goes straight for the throat and the funnybone" (The New York Times).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.

• Author: Kennedy, William. | Publisher: Penguin | Pages: 227 | Publication Date: 1989 | Edition: First Edition | Binding: Paperback | MSRP: 17 | ISBN13: 9780140070200 | ISBN: 0140070206 | Other ISBN: 9781101665923 | Other ISBN Binding: print | Language: en | Store Location: General Fiction | "Book cover image may be different than what appears on the actual book."