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Item Details
Title:
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IRONWEED
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By: |
William Kennedy |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£18.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140070206 |
ISBN 13: |
9780140070200 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
7 February, 1984 |
Pages: |
240 |
Description: |
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a depressed Albany, where--as a gravedigger--he shuffles his rag tag way to survival. |
Synopsis: |
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction In 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." |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
Prizes: |
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1984
Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1984 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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