Ironweed
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Ironweed, novel (1983) by
William Kennedy.
Francis Phelan, once a major league pitcher in the Grover Cleveland Alexander era, now an alcoholic bum, returns to his native Albany, N.Y., in the 1930s. Francis continually sees accusing ghosts of figures from his past. He attempts small amends to his long since deserted wife and hostile grown daughter, and struggles merely to stay alive with his present consort Helen, another alcoholic. He bears up. Kennedy creates his own hymn to the human condition at its ugliest and grittiest. Rejected by 17 publishers as “not commercial,” the novel was immediately hailed on publication as a masterpiece, became a bestseller, and received the 1983 National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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