{"product_id":"legs-isbn-9780140064841","title":"Legs","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the first novel in his Albany cycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The best novel about a criminal legend I've ever read.”—Hunter S. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTrue to both life and legend, \u003ci\u003eLegs \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dynamite...\u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e is what a novel is supposed to be.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pure literary excitement...easy to read and hard to put down. I enjoed it from beginning to end and wished it were longer.”—Joseph Heller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore Praise for William Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kennedy's justly acclaimed Albany Cycle [is] one of the imperishable products of American literature since the Second World War. These books can be read singly or in sequence, but read they must be. Kennedy is one of our necessary writers.”—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Kennedy's novels have the rough feel of stories told, not of chapters written and artfully polished. His beguiling yarns are the kind of family myths embellished and retold across a kitchen table late at night, whiskified, raunchy, darkly funny, tangles of old resentments and fresh exasperations.”—\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Phelan's Greatest Game\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pulitzer Prize winning \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e.The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, the play \u003ci\u003eGrand View\u003c\/i\u003e, and cowrote the screenplay for the \u003ci\u003eThe Cotton Club\u003c\/i\u003e with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction \u003ci\u003eO Albany!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRiding the Yellow Trolley Car\u003c\/i\u003e. Some of the other works he is known for include \u003ci\u003eRoscoe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVery Old Bones\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKennedy 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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302773412069,"sku":"NP9780140064841","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140064841.jpg?v=1767731297","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/legs-isbn-9780140064841","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}