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Roscoe
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black paper with brown paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good only. The front free endsheet is absent. Near fine dust jacket. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed. Signed by the author on the title page.
Synopsis
The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed , Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best. It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. "Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter" ( The New Yorker ), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from one of America's most important writers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19635
- Title
- Roscoe
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Octavo
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