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Ironweed

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In William Kennedy
Ironweed (1983), which brought Kennedy widespread acclaim and won him the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, recounts a few days in the life of Francis Phelan (Billy Phelan’s father), an alcoholic vagrant drifting through life in Albany at the height of the Depression. Also published…
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