Ironweed (Signed)
by KENNEDY, William
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket - As Published
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Synopsis
The third novel in William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series, Ironweed (1983) is set during the Great Depression. It follows Francis Phelan, a drifter from Albany, New York. After a devastating accident where he killed his child, he becomes a wandering alcoholic, but at the beginning of the novel has returned home. Detailing Francis’s life following his homecoming, Ironwood tells the tragic tale of a man haunted by his past. The striking novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted into a film in 1987.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Ironweed (Signed)
- Author
- KENNEDY, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket - As Published
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- CT
- Date Published
- 1999
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