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Bootlegger of the soul : the literary legacy of William Kennedy /
"Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of the acclaimed literary career of the award-winning novelist William Kennedy. Often cited as one of the foremost authors of his generation, Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Excelsior editions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: conjuring ghosts with William Kennedy
- The sudden fame of William Kennedy / Margaret Croyden
- O Albany! O Kennedy! / Doris Grumbach
- William Kennedy: interview / Edward Schwarzschild
- Human capital: O Albany! pays homage to the hard-to-love city that is the greatest hero of Kennedy's novels / Stefan Beck
- Violent places: on ghosts, bums, and redemption in Ironweed / Robert Towers
- The literary brilliance of the opening of Ironweed / Donald Newlove
- Rattling great yarn: Quinn's book / Fintan O'Toole
- Family values: William Kennedy's Very Old Bones / Thomas R. Edwards
- Bootlegger of the soul: an introduction to Roscoe / Colum McCann
- O Albany! Roscoe and the triumph of Kennedy's Albany Cycle / Thomas Flanagan
- World premiere of Roscoe: American opera at its finest / Anthony P. Radford
- Jam Session: a review of Changó's Beads and Two-tone Shoes / John Sayles
- An interview with William Kennedy: from novelist to screenwriter / William Patrick
- Why it took so long
- Reinventing Albany in fiction: notes from a native son
- Learning from Faulkner: the obituary of fear
- Gifts from Joyce
- Saul Bellow in memoriam (1915-2005): a great insistent gift
- A nonpareil force field: a tribute to Norman Mailer
- A box of books: an exchange, on matters literary and postal, with Hunter S. Thompson
- The Secrets of Creative Love: A Short Story
- In the system: a technology play
- William Kennedy as journalist: springboard to novelist / Douglas Brinkley
- Edward and Katrina Daugherty: a match made in Albany, not in heaven / Vivian Valvano Lynch
- The snows of reduction: representing homelessness in Ironweed / Benedict Giamo
- A magical time in Albany / Christian Michener
- The cyclical impulse of the Flaming corsage / Michael Patrick Gillespie
- Courtesans, stars, wives, and vixens: the many faces of female power in Kennedy's novels / Neila C. Seshachari.