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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-24 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Pocket Books Francis Phelan. ex-big-leaguer. part-time gravedigger. full-time bum with the gift of gab. is back in town He. .. left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally. and the boy died Now hes on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned. haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life Francis; his wino ladyfriend of nine years. Helen; and his stumblebum pal. Rudy. shuffle their ragtag way through the citys bleakest streets. surviving on gumption. muscatel. and black wit Destiny is not their business..
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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.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1416522786
- ISBN 13 9781416522782
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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