Author: William Kennedy Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Historical fiction
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ISBNs: 9780743263061 9780140070200 0743263065 0140070206 |
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Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.
Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.
"A powerfully affecting work, abounding in humor and heartbreak." (Chicago Tribune Bookworld)
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