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  <title><![CDATA[An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed]]></title>
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  <default_description>Now together in one volume, here are three early works from critically acclaimed author William Kennedy's Albany Cycle: LEGS, BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME and the Pulitzer Prize-winning IRONWEED. &quot;Vivd characterization, dead-on dialogue and brilliantly imagined scenes . . . &quot;THE NEW YORKER's review of recent Kennedy novel, THE FLAMING CORSAGE.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1985</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Kennedy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 18 03:42:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's no real story in any of the three of these ... there are a series of dull gangster episodes lifted from Albany newspapers in the 1930's or whatever, sort of warmed over by the author with the intention, <br/>apparently, of introducing some kind of human element into the people in those stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27598514">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 01 11:05:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 26 18:53:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Albany Novels delve into the lives of characters I don't care about--gangsters and their molls, gamblers, corrupt politicians, sad drunks--and the unappealing &quot;underworld&quot; they inhabit. And I inexplicably couldn't stop reading. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game is the standout, in my opinio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76380383">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've only read Ironweed. I liked it. The Albany stuff is interesting, especially because I live in upstate New York now. Some of the prose was a bit overdone. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished reading Legs and enjoyed it pretty well. It's a relatively quick read, though in this book it feels sort of like you're making no progress at all because the typset is very small, in order to fit three novels in 600 smallish pages. Legs was a pretty straightforward story that narrates ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1175401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37980086">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 17 15:10:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've actually only read the first of the three, Legs. It was pretty alright. I'll get back to the middle book in awhile.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Ironweed</em> is one of the best novels that you probably have not yet read.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 08:07:36 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by my dad.  I'm in the middle of &quot;Legs&quot; and am enjoying it - it's my S-Bahn book - gritty and gangstery.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, have to be honest, only read the first story in the trilogy.  I liked it enough to give it three stars, but not enough to read the the next two stories.  At least not right away...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 09 17:50:51 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be honest, I gave up.  Didn't like it as much as 15 years ago, just seemed a bit overdone.  Still liked it, but I was full after a while and just couldn't finish my dinner.]]></body>
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