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O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Sc Tapa blanda - 1985

de William Kennedy

Resumen

Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.

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Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.

Detalles

  • Título O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Sc
  • Autor William Kennedy
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Edición Reprint
  • Páginas 432
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Penguin Books, New York
  • Fecha de publicación 1985-09-03
  • ISBN 9780140074161 / 0140074163
  • Peso 0.63 libras (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensiones 7.75 x 5.05 x 0.83 pulgadas (19.69 x 12.83 x 2.11 cm)
  • Época de 18 a UP años
  • Cursos 13 - UP
  • Temas
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Library of Congress subjects Albany (N.Y.) - History, Albany (N.Y.) - Social life and customs
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 85006530
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.7

Acerca del autor

William Kennedy, author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed.The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed, the play Grand View, and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones.

Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Literary Lions Award from the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Governor's Arts Award. Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.

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