Ironweed
by William Kennedy
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140081038
- ISBN 13
- 9780140081039
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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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- ThriftBooks (US)
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- G0140081038I3N00
- Title
- Ironweed
- Author
- William Kennedy
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140081038
- ISBN 13
- 9780140081039
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1988
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