{"product_id":"ironweed","title":"Ironweed","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIronweed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Kennedy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140070200\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1984\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e227\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[W]ith \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, William Kennedy is making American literature.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Phelan has hit bottom. More than twenty years ago, the ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab left Albany after a tragic accident. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town and faced with the wife and home he abandoned, roaming the old familiar streets, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present. Winner of the Pultizer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e \"goes straight for the throat and the funnybone\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWilliam Kennedy's Albany Cycle\u003c\/b\u003e of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city's netherworld, and its spheres of power--financial, ethnic, political--often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, \u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Phelan's Greatest Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuinn's Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVery Old Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoscoe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Ironweed | William Kennedy | Paperback | 9780140070200 | Used: Good | Back Stacks I 1709887","offer_id":48165978931352,"sku":"1709887","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ironweed | William Kennedy | Paperback | 9780140070200 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks I 1731069","offer_id":48167840055448,"sku":"1731069","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71zqiqzbIVL.jpg?v=1771925888","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/ironweed","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}