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The Flaming Corsage
by Kennedy, William J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0670858722
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858729
- Seller
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Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
The Viking Press, 1996-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 6x1x9. Very good plus first edition first printing in very good plus price unclipped dust jacket. Binding is solid. Jacket is nice with some shelfwear. Will ship (and look great) in an archival quality clear Brodart cover. We use quality packaging materials. Nice Copy!
Synopsis
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
- Third Person Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002902
- Title
- The Flaming Corsage
- Author
- Kennedy, William J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670858722
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858729
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996-01-01
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 34 oz
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