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Item Details
Title:
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VERY OLD BONES
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By: |
William Kennedy |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140138986 |
ISBN 13: |
9780140138986 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1993 |
Edition: |
1997th ed. |
Pages: |
304 |
Description: |
The story of two families: the Phelan-McIlhennys and Quinn-Phelans. The author also wrote "Legs", "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" and "Ironweed", for which he received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. He also co-wrote the sceenplay for the film "The Cotton Club". |
Synopsis: |
The Phelan clan has gathered for a most unusual event: the reading of Peter Phelan's will - by Peter himself. But the Phelans have always been a bit eccentric, larger-than-life in both their sins and their salvations. In this extraordinary novel, William Kennedy chronicles the complex, moving, and sometimes hilarious saga of a hard-pressed, hard-drinking Irish-American family. From Malachi, the nineteenth-century patriarch whose religious fervor drove him to the ultimate sin; to Francis, Peter's self-exiled brother (and hero of "Ironweed" ); to Orson - half insider, half outsider, teetering on the brink of madness - the Phelans come vibrantly to life. Weaving together the seperate but interlocking threads that make up the Phelan tapestry, Kennedy captures in lyrical langauge the boundaries of love and redemption, of art, and of life itself. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
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