Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

Billy Phelan's Greatest Game - Paperback

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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game - Paperback

Billy Phelan's Greatest Game - Paperback

by William Kennedy
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Book Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycle

Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, moves throuh the lurid nighttime glare of Albany, New York. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of the city's sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor, until he finds himself in the dangerous position of potential go-between in the kidnapping of a political boss's son. In relating Billy's fall from underworld grace and his storybook redemption, Kennedy captures the seamy underside of a brassy, sweaty city that would prefer to pretend that the Depression doesn't exist.


William Kennedy's Albany Cycle 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, Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn's Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.
ISBN9780140063400
Author William Kennedy
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1983
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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WILLIAM KENNEDY (b. 1928), a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist hailing from Albany, NY, is best known for his Albany cycle of novels, currently a series of eight interconnected books. The founding director of the New York State Writers Institute, he has been the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Ironweed. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and was named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. 

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