Name: Legs

Author: William Kennedy
Year: 1975
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Fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery, Crime

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ISBNs:
9780140064841
0140064842		 Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy's acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.  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.
This book is part of the "The Albany Cycle" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Roscoe"
First published in 2002
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"The Flaming Corsage"
First published in 1996
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"Very Old Bones"
First published in 1992
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"Quinn's Book"
First published in 1988
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"Ironweed"
First published in 1983
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"Billy Phelan's Greatest Game"
First published in 1978
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