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Item Details
| Title:
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ROSCOE
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| By: |
William Kennedy |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0743220749 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780743220743 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2003 |
| Edition: |
New ed |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
It''s V-J Day, World War II is finally over and Roscoe is quitting politics after 26 years as chief brainstruster of Albany''s notorious Democratic machine. But how will he relax his hold on the lid without the political pot boiling over, scalding his beloved and her family? |
| Synopsis: |
From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Ironweed and Legs, Roscoe is a comic journey into the dark heart of America's postwar Democratic dream.; It's V-J Day, World War II is finally over, and Roscoe is quitting politics after twenty-six years as chief brainstruster of Albany's notorious Democratic machine. The suave, brilliant, unscrupulous Falstaffian wants to hang up his white double-breasted Palm Beach suit and drift into retirement. But how will he relax his hold on the lid without the political pot boiling over, scalding his beloved and her family? Armed with the politician's most powerful credo - 'Righteousness doesn't stand a chance against the imagination' - Roscoe fights his final political battles. Every step forward leads Roscoe into the past - to the early loss of his true love, to his own particular heroics in World War I, the takeover of City Hall and the methodical assassination of the gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond. Roscoe is a comic masterpiece from one of America's most revered novelists. |
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