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Legs (Review Copy)

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Legs (Review Copy)

by Kennedy, William

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New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo. 317 pp novel by the author of Ironweed. Part of the author's trilogy of novels set in depression era Albany. Sticker shadow ro inside front pastedown else a near fine copy in lightly used dustwrapper. This, a REVIEW COPY, with review slip and publisher's promotional sheets laid in.

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William Kennedy , author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs , Billy Phelan's Greatest Game , and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed . The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed , the play Grand View , and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car . Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones . Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Literary Lions Award from the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Governor’s Arts Award. Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.

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Bookseller
Derringer Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
16794
Title
Legs (Review Copy)
Author
Kennedy, William
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition
very good +
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1975
Keywords
Literature, Review Copy
Bookseller catalogs
Modern Literature / First Editions;

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