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Thorndike Press, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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About this book
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.
First Edition Identification
The first edition of Ironwood was published in 1983 by The Viking Press in New York, N.Y. The novel is hardcover, with a dust jacket designed by Neil Stuart, and containing a photo on the cover taken by Margaret Bourke-White. This edition is 227 pages long and has the original price of $14.75 printed on the top right corner of the inside cover of the dust jacket. There are two primary identifying features of this edition. First, there is no photo of the author printed on the inside back of the dust jacket, as there is in other printings. Second, on the copyright page, “first published in 1983 by The Viking Press” is printed below the copyright information, instead of above the logo of The Viking Press, which is where it’s located in subsequent printings. While some might mistake the misspelling of “perceived” on page 205, line 22, as an identifying point, it is not, as this misspelling continues through the third printing.
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- Title Ironweed
- Author William Kennedy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Lrg
- Pages 316
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Thorndike Press, Thorndike, Maine
- Date 1996-12
- Large Print Yes
- ISBN 9780783819662 / 0783819668
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.41 x 1.18 in (24.13 x 16.28 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96034825
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Ironweed : Large Print Edition
by Kennedy, William
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Thorndike, Maine: G. K. Hall & Co, 1996. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very slightly rubbed). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked. Hardcover. Unabridged Large Print Edition. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Basis for the film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Bound in the original gray boards with a blue cloth spine lettered in shiny silver. From the Dust Jacket: "Francis Phelan, ex-ball player, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past…
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