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The
2004 Award
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Roscoe
by William Kennedy |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| It's
1945, the war is over and Roscoe Conway wants to retire from Albany's Democratic
Party. But how can the Falstaffian political dealmaker keep the skeletons
in the closet while backing out of the room? Every step forward leads Roscoe
into the past - to the early loss of his true love and his heroics in World
War I; to the takeover of City Hall, the fight with FDR and Al Smith to
elect a governor; and to the methodical assassination of the gangster Jack
'Legs' Diamond. Roscoe is a deadly comic journey into the dark heart of America's post-war Democratic dream. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York, and still lives on its outskirts. He is the author of six previous novels - Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award), Quinn's Book, Very Old Bones and The Flaming Corsage - known collectively as the Albany Cycle |
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