Ironweed - Brossura

Kennedy, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1416522786 ISBN 13: 9781416522782

Casa editrice: Simon + Schuster UK, 2013

Riassunto

The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died. Now he's on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned, haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life. Francis; his wino ladyfriend of nine years, Helen; and his stumblebum pal, Rudy, shuffle their ragtag way through the city's bleakest streets, surviving on gumption, muscatel, and black wit. estiny is not their business. 'The premise of Ironweed was so unpromising, that in marketing terms the writer still to this day finds it funny: the story of a bunch of itinerant alcoholics, knocking around Kennedy's hometown, falling out, having visions, trying to pass for sober to cadge a bed for the night in the homeless shelter.' Guardian 'But for all the rich variety of prose and event, from hallucination to bedrock realism to slapstick and to blessed quotidian peace, ''Ironweed'' is more austere than its predecessors. It is more fierce, but also more forgiving.' Quoted from the classic New York Times review of Ironweed, which made it an overnight sensation.

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Recensione:

'Kennedy's writing is effulgent and desperately comic, dizzying in its depths of sorrow' JONATHAN FRANZEN
'Kennedy has the power to peer into the past, to breathe life into it and make it indispensable' T C BOYLE
'At a time when so much cold porridge is served up in the literary world as hot stuff, here is the real hot stuff' SAUL BELLOW

L'autore:

William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York. His Albany Cycle of novels is recognised as one of the great achievements of postwar American literature, and includes LEGS, BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME, IRONWEED, VERY OLD BONES, QUINN'S BOOK and the FLAMING CORSAGE.

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• Editore: Simon + Schuster UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1416522786
• ISBN 13: 9781416522782
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272