William Kennedy

Albany Cycle

1 - Legs (Feb-1983)
2 - Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (May-1978)
3 - Ironweed (Feb-1984)
4 - Quinn's Book (Jun-1988)
5 - Very Old Bones (May-1992)
6 - The Flaming Corsage (May-1996)
7 - Roscoe (Jan-2002)
8 - Chango's Beads and Two-tone Shoes (Oct-2011)

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  Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
  

  • May-1978
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  Albany Cycle - 2
  

  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 n...

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  Code Conquistador
  

  • May-1982
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  Legs
  

  • Feb-1983
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  Albany Cycle - 1
  

  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. ThompsonTrue to both life and legend, L...

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  Ironweed
  

  • Feb-1984
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  Albany Cycle - 3
  

  “[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.” -- The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Phelan has hit bottom. More than twenty years ago, the ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab left Al...

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  The Ink truck
  

  • Oct-1984
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  Quinn's Book
  

  • Jun-1988
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  Albany Cycle - 4
  

  "Kennedy writes with verve and nerve. His wit, always sharp, has rarely been sharper. He paints a full and lively canvas... Quinn’s Book casts a lovely light, indeed." -- Stephen King
   
  From the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate...

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  Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine
  

  • Oct-1990
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  In this collaboration between the Pulitzer Prizewinning author and his son, Charlie Malarkey wakes up to find his belly button is missing. A man named Ben Bubie arrives, with new and used buttons for sale. No dice for Charlie, who warns his friend Ig...

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  Very Old Bones
  

  • May-1992
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  Albany Cycle - 5
  

  For William Kennedy fans, Albany conjures up a tapestry of great beauty and complexity in which the lives of an Irish American family are woven. Earlier Albany novels, including Ironweed, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, whetted our appetites. Now Very Old B...

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  Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
  

  • May-1993
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  A collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed takes on Joyce's Dublin, Sinatra, Fellini, Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, Paul McCartney, Diane Sawyer, Ingmar Bergman, and other topics. National ad/promo....

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  The Flaming Corsage
  

  • May-1996
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  Albany Cycle - 6
  

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts, and furies in this thrilling novel in the Albany Cycle.Moving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, The Flaming Corsage follows t...

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  Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose
  

  • Jul-1996
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  Diamond of Greed
  

  • Nov-2001
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  Roscoe
  

  • Jan-2002
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  Albany Cycle - 7
  

  “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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of IronweedIt's V-J Day, the war is over, and Ros...

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  A Man Possessed
  

  • Apr-2008
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  Chango's Beads and Two-tone Shoes
  

  • Oct-2011
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  Albany Cycle - 8
  

  From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea tha...

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  The Singing Bone
  

  • Nov-2012
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  Liam Stone operates within a band of emotion that never touches his self imposed safety limits; no severe pain, yet no great joy. The death of his widowed Mother in an automobile accident and a meeting with his Father’s best friend, a Catholic pri...

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  William Kennedy: The Albany Trilogy
  

  • Mar-2026
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  A landmark of American historical fiction for the first time in a deluxe collector’s edition Prohibition-Era Albany comes to life in a trilogy of novels of crime and corruption, hope and redemptionUnfolding in Albany during Prohibition and the ...

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Award-Winning Books by William Kennedy

Ironweed
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
1984 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction