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From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Ironweed and Legs, Roscoe is a comic journey into the dark heart of America's postwar Democratic dream.; It's V-J Day, World War II is finally over, and Roscoe is quitting politics after twenty-six years as chief brainstruster of Albany's notorious Democratic machine. The suave, brilliant, unscrupulous Falstaffian wants to hang up his white double-breasted Palm Beach suit and drift into retirement. But how will he relax his hold on the lid without the political pot boiling over, scalding his beloved and her family? Armed with the politician's most powerful credo - 'Righteousness doesn't stand a chance against the imagination' - Roscoe fights his final political battles. Every step forward leads Roscoe into the past - to the early loss of his true love, to his own particular heroics in World War I, the takeover of City Hall and the methodical assassination of the gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond. Roscoe is a comic masterpiece from one of America's most revered novelists.
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"Driven by a narrative electricity as alive as post-war America. Roscoe is Kennedy's finest novel since Ironweed." --The Boston Globe
"This is a novel that, as they say, has it all.... Kennedy is a writer with something to say, about matters that touch us all, and he does it with uncommon artistry." --Michael Thomas, The Washington Post
"A beaut, deadly serious high comedy propelled by soaring flights of linguistic legerdemain." --Ward Just, The New York Times Book Review
"This new book has a lyricism and a gusto rarely achieved in serious American novels about politics.... Roscoe may, in fact, be Kennedy's greatest." --Tom Mallon, The Atlantic Monthly
"An exuberant portrait of political and sexual intrigue. Its politics are backroom and bare-knuckle, all about power and money." --USA Today
"William Kennedy writes so melodiously about the Irish ruffians of old Albany, NY he could make Philip Roth wish he were Catholic." --San Francisco Chronicle
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0743220749
- ISBN 13 9780743220743
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- Number of pages384
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