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A fictionalized narrative of the erratic, stylish life and deadly career of notorious twenties gangster Legs Diamond, told with equivocal disbelief by his attorney, Marcus Gorman.
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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"
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"
"Dynamite . . . Legs is what a novel is supposed to be."
- The Washington Post Book World
- 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, author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed.The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed, the play Grand View, and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones.Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Literary Lions Award from the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Governor's Arts Award. Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0224012703
- ISBN 13 9780224012706
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
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