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The Flaming Corsage
by William Kennedy
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A story of love, murder, ambition, and deceit, from the celebrated Albany novelist. Edward Daugherty is a successful playwright married to Katrina, an aristocratic Irishwoman. Their marriage is passionate but troubled, and reaches a crisis shortly after a hotel fire reveals some of the secrets that haunted it. Set amid the petty snobberies of turn-of-the-century Albany, "The Flaming Corsage" is both haunting and evocative.
Available editions of The Flaming Corsage
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9780140242706,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1997
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9780670858729,
Hardcover,
Penguin Group USA,
1996
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Publisher Notes
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.
Media Reviews
"Filled with precise details of Albany's vanished life, narrated in a prose both salty and exact, catching the vigorous cadence of spoken English, this is the most impressive entry in the Albany Cycle since IRONWEED."
First Line
When the husband made his surprise entrance into the Manhattan hotel suite, his wife was leaning against a table, clad in a floor-length, forest-green velvet cloak, and wearing a small eye mask of the same color, her black hair loose to below her shoulders.
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