Roscoe
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670030295 . Signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning author on the title page. The seventh novel in Kennedy's Albany cycle, about a longtime political machine boss who attempts to quit politics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages .
Synopsis
The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed , Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best. It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. "Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter" ( The New Yorker ), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from one of America's most important writers.
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55484
- Title
- Roscoe
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670030295
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030293
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0670030295, 2000s Novels, Albany, New York Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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