Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Aside from light spine end wear to book and light scratches on Dust Jacket, overall clean and tight. No previous owners writing or defects, no remainder mark and NOT ex-library or book club. The Viking Press, 1996. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Very Good Book in Very Good Dust jacket. Price Intact. New Dust Jacket cover (Brodart) . Securely packed in a box. Shipped daily with delivery tracking. .

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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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Seller: HousatonicBooks (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 705675
Title: The Flaming Corsage
Author: Kennedy, William J
Format/Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670858722
ISBN 13: 9780670858729
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: 1996

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