Ironweed
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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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
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24089
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1983
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- First State
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- Fine
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