Ironweed : a novel / by William Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, William, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--New York (State)--Albany--Fiction.

Families.

Albany (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Albany (N.Y.).

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

227 p. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking Press, 1983.

Summary:

This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, 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 the present. Chronicles the final wanderings of a one-time ballplayer turned down-and-out murderer.

Notes:

Pulitzer Prize, 1984.

Cited in:

Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 443

ISBN:

0670401765

9780670401765

OCLC:

8709244