Roscoe

William Kennedy

Roscoe
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
26 November 2002
Pages
304
ISBN
9780142001738

Roscoe

William Kennedy

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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