Albany Cycle — by William Kennedy

• Feb-1983
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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. ThompsonTrue to both life and legend, Legs ...

• May-1978
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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...

• Feb-1984
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"[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 Albany...

• Jun-1988
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"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
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From the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate Mau...

• May-1992
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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...

• May-1996
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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...

• Jan-2002
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"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 Roscoe ...

• Oct-2011
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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...