Bootlegger of the Soul: The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy

Bootlegger of the Soul: The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Published
1 October 2018
Pages
408
ISBN
9781438473314

Bootlegger of the Soul: The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy

The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy’s long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedy’s work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy’s novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety.

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