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The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prizewinning Ironweed, Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best Its VJ Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twentysix years as the second in command of Albanys notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever But theres no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters Every step leads back to the pastto the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machines 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 Americas most important writers
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ISBN10:0142001732
ISBN13: 9780142001738
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