Ironweed by William Kennedy
	List Price:   $14.00 Unit Price:   $11.20 You Save:   $2.80 (20%) ISBN-10:   0140070206 ISBN-13:   9780140070200 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Series:   The Albany Cycle Ser. Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   February 1984 Pages:   240 Format:   B-Trade Pbk
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NEW YORK (STATE)_FICTION FICTION_GENERAL
Description/Notes
This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally - and fatally - dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present... The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco ( Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. 8 pages of photos.