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Legs

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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. Thompson**True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps ... Read more

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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. Thompson**True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps
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Quinn's Book

A Novel

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In 1849, a boy saves a girl from the Hudson River in this story "of wonders and sweetness, magic and horrors [that] immerses itself in the marvelous" ( The Boston Sunday Globe).A penniless Irish orphan, Daniel Quinn is among the crowds gathered at the Hudson River in Albany to watch a legendary dancer aboard the ferry. But when the boat strikes the ice that chokes the water on this wintry day, awe ... Read more

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In 1849, a boy saves a girl from the Hudson River in this story "of wonders and sweetness, magic and horrors [that] immerses itself in the marvelous" ( The Boston Sunday Globe).A penniless Irish orphan, Daniel Quinn is among the crowds gathered at the Hudson River in Albany to watch a legendary dancer aboard the ferry. But when the boat strikes the ice that chokes the water on this wintry day, awe
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Top 10 Poets – The Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever

by Edgar Allan Poe, Jalaluddin Rumi, John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, William Dufris, Gordon Kennedy ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
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Ironweed

Pulitzer Prize Winner (A Novel)

by William Kennedy ...

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION“[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World**Francis 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 after a tragic accident. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town and faced with the wife and home he abandoned ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION“[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World**Francis 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 after a tragic accident. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town and faced with the wife and home he abandoned
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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

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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 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 ... Read more

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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 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
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Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

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by William Kennedy ...

A dramatic novel of love, revolution, and redemption from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of IronweedWhen journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug ... Read more

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A dramatic novel of love, revolution, and redemption from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of IronweedWhen journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug
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Riding the Yellow Trolley Car

Selected Nonfiction

by William Kennedy ...

The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" ( Library Journal).When William Kennedy arrives in Barcelona, his guidebook recommends taking the trolley around town—but the trolleys haven't run in the city for years. He's on his way to interview the novelist Gabriel García Márquez when, out of the corner of his eye, ... Read more

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The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" ( Library Journal).When William Kennedy arrives in Barcelona, his guidebook recommends taking the trolley around town—but the trolleys haven't run in the city for years. He's on his way to interview the novelist Gabriel García Márquez when, out of the corner of his eye,
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Very Old Bones

A Novel

by William Kennedy ...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: "An immensely gratifying novel" of an Irish-American clan whose exploits changed Albany forever ( The Boston Globe).When it was built, the Phelan mansion was the only home on the block. In the decades since, countless tragedies have swept through its rambling halls, but no matter how many times its foundations have been rocked, the old house still stands. Now, ... Read more

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From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: "An immensely gratifying novel" of an Irish-American clan whose exploits changed Albany forever ( The Boston Globe).When it was built, the Phelan mansion was the only home on the block. In the decades since, countless tragedies have swept through its rambling halls, but no matter how many times its foundations have been rocked, the old house still stands. Now,
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Go in Action, Second Edition

by Joel Holmes, Andy Walker, William Kennedy ...

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Master Go language fundamentals, learn how to structure Go projects effectively, and deliver high-performance code using Go’s powerful concurrency model.This book has been fully updated to cover all the new features and idioms of the latest version of Go. In it, you’ll dive into Go's unique features and quickly get started writing real-world applications, such as websites and network servers.In Go ... Read more

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Master Go language fundamentals, learn how to structure Go projects effectively, and deliver high-performance code using Go’s powerful concurrency model.This book has been fully updated to cover all the new features and idioms of the latest version of Go. In it, you’ll dive into Go's unique features and quickly get started writing real-world applications, such as websites and network servers.In Go
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The Flaming Corsage

by William Kennedy ...

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 the lives of Edward Daugherty, a first generation Irish American who will break out beyond Albany as a playwright, and Katrina Taylor, a beautiful, ... Read more

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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 the lives of Edward Daugherty, a first generation Irish American who will break out beyond Albany as a playwright, and Katrina Taylor, a beautiful,
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O Albany!

Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels

by William Kennedy ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed offers an eloquent history of his colorful hometown in this marvelous book that's part journalism and part memoir.William Kennedy's celebrated cycle of novels has put Albany on the literary map. In O Albany! we visit the city's ethnic and social neighborhoods. We meet uncommon characters who tread on Kennedy's stage—Erastus Corning, America's longest ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed offers an eloquent history of his colorful hometown in this marvelous book that's part journalism and part memoir.William Kennedy's celebrated cycle of novels has put Albany on the literary map. In O Albany! we visit the city's ethnic and social neighborhoods. We meet uncommon characters who tread on Kennedy's stage—Erastus Corning, America's longest
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Roscoe

by William Kennedy ...

“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 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, ... Read more

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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 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,
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