Roscoe

English

ISBN: 0142001732

EAN: 9780142001738

Category: Fiction / Literary/Fiction / Political/Fiction / Historical/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 11/30/2002

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed, Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best. Its V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albanys notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But theres no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machines fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack Legs Diamond. Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter (The New Yorker), Roscoeis an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from one of Americas most important writers.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Roscoe

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.59 inches

Width: 5.12 inches

Length: 7.74 inches

Weight: 7.23 oz

Pages: 306