{"product_id":"roscoe-9780142001738","title":"Roscoe","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eRoscoe\u003c\/i\u003e is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery step leads back to the past--to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack \"Legs\" Diamond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Kennedy's Albany Cycle\u003c\/b\u003e of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city's netherworld, and its spheres of power--financial, ethnic, political--often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, \u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Phelan's Greatest Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuinn's Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVery Old Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoscoe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142001738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.10w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/03\/2003 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2002 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174230094005,"sku":"9780142001738","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8a141c18-1d8a-429a-9481-1c3b3bc2b685.jpg?v=1716301276","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/roscoe-9780142001738","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}