Riding the Yellow Trolley Car - Hardcover

Kennedy, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670842117 ISBN 13: 9780670842117

Verlag: Viking, 1993

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 494 pages; Description: xv, 494 p. : illus., frontis. (port.) ; 24 cm. Subjects: literary non-fiction - literary studies - book reviews - essays, literature.

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Reseña del editor:

A dazzling new collection, comprised of more than 80 pieces, in which Pulitzer Prize-winner Kennedy takes on Joyce's Dublin, Sinatra, Fellini, Hemingway, Paul McCartney, Diane Sawyer, the death of a prominent cat, his wife's hiccups, the homeless, and much more.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: Viking
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670842117
• ISBN 13: 9780670842117
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512