5/13/2023 0 Comments Ironweed book review![]() ![]() ![]() Francis Phelan, long-absent father of Billy Phelan, the main character in the previous novel, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, returns to Albany for the first time in twenty-two years. With Ironweed, William Kennedy completes his three novels of Depression-era Albany, wrapping up this study of time, place, and people with an emotionally gripping Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) that focuses on those who call themselves “bums,” all of them living apart from society because their dreams have died. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing.” The author was also WINNER of the 2009 O’Neill Award for Lifetime Achievement. Note: This novel was WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. ![]()
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