IRONWEED.
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good+ condition/Very good+ condition (DJ)
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015259
- Title
- IRONWEED.
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+ condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very good+ condition (DJ)
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- Octavo (8vo)
Terms of Sale
Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
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