The Flaming Corsage

William Kennedy

Wheeler Publishing, 1997 - Fiction - 276 pages

The sixth novel in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. In a Manhattan hotel room, a murder-suicide with four protagonists has occurred. But the mystery of who killed whom, and why, in the "Love Nest Killings of 1908, " will not come fully unraveled until the lives of the principle characters are fully explored. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 50
• Section 3: 65

About the author

William Kennedy worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines before he began a career as a novelist. Kennedy's novels, which are all centered around his home city of Albany, New York, include The Ink Truck, Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Quinn's Book, Very Old Bones, and The Flaming Corsage. Kennedy's celebrated 1983 novel, Ironweed, has won great acclaim over the years, and has earned a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a PEN-Faulkner Award. In addition to writing novels, Kennedy co-authored the screenplay for The Cotton Club with Francis Coppola in 1984 and wrote the screenplay for Ironweed in 1987. Kennedy and his son, Brendan, co-authored two children's books, Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine and Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose. William Kennedy is the founder and director of the New York State Writers Institute, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a onetime editor of the San Juan Star and a former writing teacher at Cornell University. He is now a professor in the English department of the University at Albany.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Flaming Corsage; The Albany Cycle Series; Wheeler large print book series
• Author: William Kennedy
• Edition: reprint, large print
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, 1997
• ISBN: 1568953976, 9781568953977
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Literary