Legs
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2011
368 pages
978-1-84983-851-1 (ISBN)
Description
Legsinaugurated William Kennedy's brilliant cycle of novels (including Billy Phelan's Greatest Gameand Ironweed) set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth, Legsbrilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. Diamond and his gangster entourage emerge as emblematic figures from an era of American innocence-and corruption.
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Legs
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William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York. His Albany Cycle of novels is recognised as one of the great achievements of postwar American literature, and includes LEGS, BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME, IRONWEED, VERY OLD BONES, QUINN'S BOOK and the FLAMING CORSAGE.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for William Kennedy
- Half-title page
- Also by William Kennedy
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
- Jack's Alive
- Jack Sauce
- Jack, Out of Doors
- Johnny Raw, Jack Gentleman
- Playing the Jack
- John Thomson's Man
- Jack Among the Maids
- Jack-in-the-Box
- Jack o' the Clock
- Jacked Up
