Roscoe
A Politics, American Fiction, Literature book. Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a...
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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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9780142001738 / 142001732
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. William Kennedy, Roscoe // Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet. William Kennedy, Roscoe // Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. William Kennedy, Roscoe //
About politics and scandal in New York. Can Albany's political machine run without its star mechanic?William Kennedy's latest novel about Albany takes us back to the good old days when political corruption was fun. After a year without the Clintons in the White House, Roscoe is a bittersweet reminder of the comedy we've been missing in this new age of squeaky-clean earnestness.The... 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author
