{"product_id":"the-flaming-corsage","title":"The Flaming Corsage","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam J. Kennedy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140242706\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e explores the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts, and furies in this thrilling novel in the Albany Cycle.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, \u003ci\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of Edward Daugherty, a first generation Irish American who will break out beyond Albany as a playwright, and Katrina Taylor, a beautiful, seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life. Their marriage is a passionate one, but a cataclysmic hotel fire changes it into something else altogether. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\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 Books","offers":[{"title":"The Flaming Corsage | William J. Kennedy | Paperback | 9780140242706 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1557275","offer_id":48313188581528,"sku":"1557275","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61CnB6Kx39L.jpg?v=1773163371","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-flaming-corsage","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}