Ironweed
by William Kennedy
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- General
- ISBN 10
- 0140070206
- ISBN 13
- 9780140070200
- Seller
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Holland, Michigan, 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
- The Bluestocking Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76150
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- William Kennedy
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - General
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140070206
- ISBN 13
- 9780140070200
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 1989
- Pages
- 227
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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