Legs

Legs - Paperback

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Legs - Paperback

Legs - Paperback

by William Kennedy
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the first novel in his Albany cycle.

"The best novel about a criminal legend I've ever read."--Hunter S. Thompson

True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.


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.
ISBN9780140064841
Author William Kennedy
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1983
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
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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