â€œWith Legs, Billy Phelanâ€™s Greatest Game, and . . . Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.â€â€”The Washington Post Book World

An Albany Trio

â€œWith Legs, Billy Phelanâ€™s Greatest Game, and . . . Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.â€â€”The Washington Post Book World
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Legs inaugurated William Kennedyâ€™s celebrated cycle of novels set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth. Legs evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack â€œLegsâ€ Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany, and his showgirl mistress as they blaze a trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.
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The second novel in the Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, as he moves through the lurid nighttime glare of a tough Depression-era town. Full of Irish pluck, he works the fringes of Albany sporting life with his own particular styleâ€”until he falls from underworld grace.
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In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany after killing a scab during a workersâ€™ strike, and again after he accidentallyâ€”and fatallyâ€”dropped his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back, roaming familiar streets and trying to make peace with ghosts of the past and present.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0140257861_used
Color Tan
ReleaseDate 1996-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140257861

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0140257861_used
Color	Tan
ReleaseDate	1996-07-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140257861

An Albany Trio

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