Ironweed
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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About This Item
First printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. This copy signed/Inscribed by Kennedy on the half-title page. With error on page 205. Slight slant to the spine; edge wear, small prior owner ink stamp name/address on front-paste-down end paper. Jacket has several edge tears and edge wear.
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
- Iron Engine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2023-070
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 227
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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