William Kennedy Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Billy Phelan's Greatest GameCondition: NewISBN-10: 0140063404EAN: 9780140063400ISBN: 9780140063400Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/27/1983Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycleBilly 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 197mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 227gAuthor: William KennedyGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 1983 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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