Roscoe - William Kennedy - Books - Penguin Books - 9780142001738 - November 26, 2002
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Roscoe Reprint edition

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Roscoe Reprint edition

The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed, Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best. It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. "Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter" (The New Yorker), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from one of America's most important writers.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 26, 2002
ISBN13 9780142001738
Publishers Penguin Books
Pages 306
Dimensions 125 × 13 × 194 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  

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