false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171220138m/90761.jpg 90761 5 LEGS inaugurated William Kennedy's cycle of novels set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth LEGS evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany. <P>Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. <P>"Pure literary excitement...easy to read and hard to put down. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and wished it were longer." --Joseph Heller <P>BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME continues the trilogy concluding with IRONWEED. 981423 1975 Legs total:246|5:58|4:110|3:67|2:10|1:1| 246 952 313 12 4 0 false false Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 20:26:49 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 22:52:08 -0700 2008 Jack "Legs" Diamond, as told by his lawyer (!) Marcus Gorman. Obviously this means you are saddled with an unreliable narrator -- not to mention one who tries to go all naturalistic and tropey like Saul Bellow -- but I dig Marcus's (and Kennedy's) a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 1994 Sun Aug 02 08:15:02 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 08:16:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Feb 16 04:10:01 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 04:10:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 18:11:12 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 15:46:32 -0800 2008 http://www.meadowparty.com/blog/?p=457.]]> 0 0 false false Thu Aug 14 09:41:26 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 15:39:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 08 11:10:44 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 05:48:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 23 11:32:03 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 21 07:22:23 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 23 11:32:03 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 21 10:48:08 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:50:32 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 13:03:05 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 20:09:21 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 06 08:29:47 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 08:30:47 -0700 2008 4 0 true false Fri Feb 22 22:13:10 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 21:18:15 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed May 14 18:10:59 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 18:11:59 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Nov 26 09:42:10 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 09:42:10 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:26:28 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:26:55 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 10:28:48 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 10:28:48 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 09:35:36 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 09:35:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 16:52:50 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 16:52:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 10:38:34 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:38:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 01:51:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 01:51:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 18 13:56:26 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 13:56:26 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=90761