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Ironweed : Large Print Edition
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0783819668
- ISBN 13
- 9780783819662
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
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 and present...". Large Print Edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 316pp.
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's Inventory #
- 015443
- Title
- Ironweed : Large Print Edition
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Large Print Edition, 1st printing
- ISBN 10
- 0783819668
- ISBN 13
- 9780783819662
- Publisher
- G. K. Hall & Co
- Place of Publication
- Thorndike, Maine
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery / Crime Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo. 316pp
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