Legs

Literature & Fiction

William, Kennedy

Literary

Penguin??Books

WARNER BOOKS

Ironweed

Demco Media

Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy’s Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab, has hit bottom. Years earlier he’d left Albany after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died.  Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present.

Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval

This reissue of the award-winning novelist's first novel recounts the doomed efforts of Bailey, a former newspaper columnist who leads four other workers in a strike against their employer, a newspaper in a medium-sized American city

The Ink Truck

United States

The Viking Press

An historical profile of the capital of New York documents the neighborhoods, ethicity, culture, society, and colorful people of Albany

O Albany!

History & Criticism

The continuation of the Phelan family saga is narrated by a bastard artist, who, estranged from the family, traces its history in paintings that document their scandals and eccentricities. By the author of Ironweed. 100,000 first printing. 100,000 ad/promo.

Very Old Bones

A group of reporters' lives are endangered when they uncover a top secret plot by the United States government to gain control of Mexican oil

Code Conquistador

Pocket

Roscoe

Contemporary

Scribner

William Kennedy's ALBANY CYCLE is one of the greatest and most enjoyable achievements of post-war American literature. In Albany, New York, William Kennedy has made a crucible to test the American dream. His novels, which range from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, bubble and crack with the energy of Irish immigrants trying to take the main chance in the land of opportunity. Francis Phelan is, alongside 'Legs' Diamond, William Kennedy's greatest character. Ex-ball player, latterly a bum, lush and hardcase, he is central to these three Albany novels: father to the pool shark Billy who struggles with his legacy of violence and self-glorification (BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME); brother to artist Peter whose paintings explore the dark corners of his family history, including Francis's life (VERY OLD BONES); and antihero of Pulitzer Prize winning IRONWEED, in which Phelan returns to Albany at the end of the Depression, roaming the familiar streets with his hobo pal Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present.

ALBANY CYCLE BOOK 1: BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME; IRONWEED; VERY OLD BONES

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Legs

Legs

Ironweed

Ironweed

The Ink Truck

O Albany!

Very Old Bones

Code Conquistador

Roscoe

ALBANY CYCLE BOOK 1: BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME; IRONWEED; VERY OLD BONES