Ironweed

Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy's Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab, has hit bottom. Years earlier he'd left Albany after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died. 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 present.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/07/1984
ISBN: 9780140070200
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.16w x 0.45d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 16716 / Ironweed
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10