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Penguin
December 2002
On Sale: November 26, 2002
306 pages
ISBN: 0142001732
EAN: 9780142001738
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Fiction
The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five
years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work
since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed, Roscoe shows
Kennedy at his very best. It's V-J Day, the war is over,
and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in
command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to
quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his
Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the
erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to
the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall,
the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a
governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster
Jack "Legs" Diamond. "Thick with crime, passion, and
backroom banter" (The New Yorker), Roscoe is an odyssey of
great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic
masterpiece from one of America's most important writers.
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