Author: William Kennedy Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction
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ISBNs: 9780142001738 0142001732 |
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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.
This book is part of the "The Albany Cycle" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Flaming Corsage" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Very Old Bones" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Quinn's Book" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Ironweed" First published in 1983 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Legs" First published in 1975 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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