Roscoe
by William Kennedy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Seller
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BROOKLYN, New York, United States
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About This Item
Jan 2002 hardcover 1st edition 1st printing with full number line flatsigned by the author on the title page. A hint of sunning on cover and foxing on edge but essentially in fine condition.
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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- Bookseller
- Dave's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2304
- Title
- Roscoe
- Author
- William Kennedy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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