William Kennedy





William Kennedy

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born
January 16, 1928 in Albany, New York, The United States

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William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural. Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; film, 1987), and Roscoe (2002).
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Average rating: 3.81 · 6382 ratings · 438 reviews · 40 distinct works
Ironweed
3.81 of 5 stars 381 avg rating — 4259 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions
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Legs
3.86 of 5 stars 386 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 1975 — 12 editions
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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
3.92 of 5 stars 392 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions
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Very Old Bones
3.77 of 5 stars 377 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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Roscoe
3.78 of 5 stars 378 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Quinn's Book
3.71 of 5 stars 371 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions
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Changó's Beads and Two-Tone...
3.33 of 5 stars 333 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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The Flaming Corsage
3.59 of 5 stars 359 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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O Albany!
3.84 of 5 stars 384 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions
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An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy...
3.94 of 5 stars 394 avg rating — 62 ratings4 editions
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More books by William Kennedy…
Legs Billy Phelan's Greatest Game Ironweed Quinn's Book Very Old Bones The Flaming Corsage Roscoe
The Albany Cycle (7 books)
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“Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love. ”
William Kennedy, Ironweed

“. . . and what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink?”
William Kennedy, Ironweed

“...the only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked that enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes? They feared drys, cops, jailers, bosses, moralists, crazies, truth-tellers, and one another. they loved storytellers, liars, whores, fighters, singers, collie dogs that wagged their tails, and generous bandits. Rudy, thought Francis: he's just a bum, but who ain't?”
William Kennedy, Ironweed



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