London, UK.: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd( A CBS Company), 2011. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK paperback reprint. Printing numbers 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Firmly bound with some handling wear including creases on the lower corner of the front cover and first few pages. Small area of scuffing on the spine.

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From the Pulitzer Prize – winning author of Ironweed , a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy's latest novel—a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn, and his exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife, Renata, a debutante revolutionary, face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature and illuminates the power of love in the presence of death. Kennedy masterfully gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a breathtaking adventure full of music, mysticism, and murder—a homeless black alcoholic, a radical Catholic priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill jazz legend, the imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway, Castro, and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes, provocateurs, and underworld heavies. This is an unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and redemption, set against the landscape of the civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany political machine.

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Bookseller: Ryde Bookshop Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 057162
Title: Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
Author: William Kennedy
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Thus 1st Printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0857206567
ISBN 13: 9780857206565
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd( A CBS Company)
Place of Publication: London, UK.
Date Published: 2011
Pages: 328
Keywords: Fiction, Novel
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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