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    <body><![CDATA[See other comments on William Kennedy but this novel is a great portrait of a small time criminal and hustler...and in the portrait of an ordinary guy we see a world.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What do you get in a rough and tumble Depression-era Albany, NY?  Pool sharks, poker bluffs, and Irish folks up to no good.  This was a great book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book of William Kennedy's acclaimed Albany cycle, which for some reason I've decided to read in reverse order with a 20 year gap in between novels. I was either hot or cold on this one. I think the author has a natural gift for dialogue, but there were too many peripheral characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16317883">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this one was the weakest of the Albany Trilogy, but still pretty great. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[William Kennedy knows how to write. This was my third Kennedy novel; I've also read 'Quinn's Book' and 'Legs.' In each one, he manages to create something light --  almost magical, nearly whimsical, just lovely -- and dark -- shot through with the hardship and dirt and bone poverty of 1930's Albany,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60649661">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book very hard to get into.  I only made it to the 25th page before I put it down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book: Gambling Irishmen rule.  Hey, the Jews can't have all the fun.  Slice-of-life isn't my favorite genre, but slice-of-life-plus-kidnapping-and-1930s-gangsters?  Now we're talking.]]></body>
    
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