Palms, Wine, and Witness: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community
by David J. Parkin
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- Paperback
- Condition
- VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0881338028
- ISBN 13
- 9780881338027
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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
- North Country Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10659
- Title
- Palms, Wine, and Witness: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community
- Author
- David J. Parkin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1994
- ISBN 10
- 0881338028
- ISBN 13
- 9780881338027
- Publisher
- Waveland Press
- Place of Publication
- Prospect Heights, Il, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- May 1994
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