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Ironweed

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. 8 pages of photos.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (1984)

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Kennedy, William

born Jan. 16, 1928, Albany, N.Y., U.S.

U.S. novelist and journalist.

He worked as a journalist in New York and Puerto Rico before returning in 1963 to his native Albany, N.Y., which he considered the source of his literary inspiration. His novels, which are set in Albany and contain elements of local history and the supernatural, include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), and Ironweed (1983, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1987).

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▪ American author and journalist
in full  William Joseph Kennedy 
born Jan. 16, 1928, Albany, N.Y., U.S.

      American author and journalist whose novels feature elements of local history, journalism, and supernaturalism.

      Kennedy graduated from Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y., in 1949 and worked as a journalist in New York state and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he also began writing fiction. In 1963 he returned to Albany, which he considered the source of his literary inspiration, to continue working on newspapers and novels. His first novel, The Ink Truck (1969), concerns a colourful columnist named Bailey who leads a strike at his newspaper in Albany.

      Kennedy combined history, fiction, and black humour in his next novel, Legs (1975), about Jack (“Legs”) Diamond, an Irish-American gangster who was killed in Albany in 1931. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), also set in Albany, chronicles the life of a small-time streetwise hustler who sidesteps the powerful local political machine. Ironweed (1983), which brought Kennedy widespread acclaim and won him the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, recounts a few days in the life of Francis Phelan (Billy Phelan's father), an alcoholic vagrant drifting through life in Albany at the height of the Depression. Also published in 1983, O Albany! is a spirited nonfictional account of the politics and history of the city. In addition, Kennedy wrote the novels Quinn's Book (1988), Very Old Bones (1992), The Flaming Corsage (1996), and Roscoe (2002); screenplays for the motion pictures The Cotton Club (1984, with Francis Ford Coppola (Coppola, Francis Ford)) and Ironweed (1987); and two plays, Grand View (1996) and In the System (2003). He coauthored two children's books with his son Brendan Kennedy: Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine (1986) and Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose (1994).

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Источник: Kennedy, William

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