IRONWEED.
by Kennedy, William
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Synopsis
The third novel in William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series, Ironweed (1983) is set during the Great Depression. It follows Francis Phelan, a drifter from Albany, New York. After a devastating accident where he killed his child, he becomes a wandering alcoholic, but at the beginning of the novel has returned home. Detailing Francis’s life following his homecoming, Ironwood tells the tragic tale of a man haunted by his past. The striking novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted into a film in 1987.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 313635
- Title
- IRONWEED.
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- VIKING.
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/william Kennedy/pulitzer Prize Winners/books Into Films/209
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