The Viking Press, 1996-05-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 9.3000 6.6000. First edition with full numberline, signed by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Pages are clean.

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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: Schwabe Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0002323359
Title: The Flaming Corsage
Author: Kennedy, William J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0670858722
ISBN 13: 9780670858729
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996-05-01
Size: 1.0000 9.3000 6.6000
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 1.0000 lb
Product_type: Books

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