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ISBN10: 0140064842
ISBN13: 9780140064841
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 27 1983
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.07 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780140064841
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 27 1983
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.07 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the first novel in his Albany cycle. The best novel about a criminal legend I've ever read.--Hunter S. Thompson True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack Legs Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.
William Kennedy's 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 city's 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 Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn's Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.
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