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Ironweed by William Kennedy7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() For all of that, Franny is an interesting character that reminds me of an uncle of mine that passed a few years ago. The book is almost entirely written from Francis' perspective - through his own neuroses and alcholic hazes, with hallucinations and sudden mood changes. I think it was an unusual choice for the committee, and actually preferred Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. ![]() It won the Pulitzer in 1984 beating out Cathedral by Raymond Carver and The Feud by Thomas Berger, neither of which I have read yet. Ironweed is the third book of William Kennedy's Albany series which focuses on the character Francis Phelan, father of the protagonist of his previous book Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and referring at times to events in the first book of this series, Legs. ![]()
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