The Flaming Corsage - Hardcover

Kennedy, William J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670858722 ISBN 13: 9780670858729

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1996

Synopsis

Beginning with a scandalous murder-suicide in 1908, a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed moves back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, following the lives and fates of playwright Edward Daugherty, his wife Katrina, and their lovers. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Review:

Kennedy has won a large and loyal following, but you don't have to be a dyed-in-the-wool Kennedy fan to enjoy this latest addition to the famous Albany cycle of novels -- from whence come the likes of Ironweed, his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. The Flaming Corsage is a return to the same place, different time. Bouncing back and forth from 1884 to 1912, Kennedy's story is of wealth and class in Albany; his prose is at once moodily atmospheric and refreshingly clear -- an utter pleasure to read. The book is a historical novel, yet feels perfectly modern, and perfectly entertaining.

About the Author:

William Kennedy, author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed.The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed, the play Grand View, and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones.

Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Literary Lions Award from the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Governor’s Arts Award. Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670858722
• ISBN 13: 9780670858729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224