Legs
$34.67
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 January 1983
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140064841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140064842 |
| Author: | William Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 1983 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | The Albany Cycle |
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Critics Review
“Dynamite … Legs is what a novel is supposed to be.”
- The Washington Post Book World “The best novel about a criminal legend I’ve ever read.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
“A brilliant novel, a truly creative piece of work … like any real artist, Kennedy takes what is really a sordid, vulgar reality and turns it into a human tragedy.”
- Mario Puzo
About The Author
William Kennedy
William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York. He began his writing career as a journalist, and his novels have been translated into two dozen languages. His novel “Ironweed” won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
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