Ironweed
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued;
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
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Odessa, Texas, United States
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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
- Ye Old Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11644
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued;
- Edition
- 1st Printing Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- Viking/Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Historical Novel, Literature
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