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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter (The New Yorker), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of IronweedIt's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the pastto the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.William Kennedys 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 citys netherworld, and its spheres of powerfinancial, ethnic, politicaloften among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelans Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinns Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe. The first novel from Kennedy in five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed, Roscoe" shows Kennedy at his very best. "Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter" ("The New Yorker"), "Roscoe" is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780142001738
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