William Kennedy

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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 381 avg rating — 4259 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Legs 386 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 1975 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Billy Phelan's Greatest Game 392 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Very Old Bones 377 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Roscoe 378 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Quinn's Book 371 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes 333 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Flaming Corsage 359 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	O Albany! 384 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed 394 avg rating — 62 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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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

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

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“...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

tags: dealing-with-it

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