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Ironweed.

by KENNEDY, William

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
ISBN 10
0670401765
ISBN 13
9780670401765
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NY:: Viking,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0670401765 . Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Made into the 1987 film. First edition, first issue - misspelling ("perceivced") on page 205, line 22. Review copy with slip, glossy black and white photograph of the author, and publisher's press release laid in. Trace foxing on edges, else very good in a very good (short closed edge tear and attendant creasing at the base of the rear panel) first state (original $14.75 price on front flap and no author photo on rear flap) dust jacket. ; 227 pages .

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
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
18420
Title
Ironweed.
Author
KENNEDY, William
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
ISBN 10
0670401765
ISBN 13
9780670401765
Publisher
Viking,
Place of Publication
NY:
Date Published
1983
Keywords
0670401765, Books To Film, Pulitzer Prize

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