Kennedy, William (Vol. 6) - Kennedy, William 1928–
Kennedy, William 1928–
Kennedy is an American newspaperman and novelist, the author of The Ink Truck and Legs.
I've … never been able to figure out why Americans, who make such good gangster movies, write such awful gangster novels. Surely all the elements are there of what we are pleased to call the stuff of fiction…. And yet when it comes to exploiting it, a strange malaise seems to creep over the collective novelistic consciousness…. We can turn cowboys into literature, we can turn businessmen into literature, we can turn doctors, farmers, soldiers, professors, and real estate speculators into literature, but until now gangsters—and, interestingly, politicians—have eluded the novelist's informing eye. I am happy to report that William Kennedy has at last taken steps to set matters to rights.
It is necessary to tread cautiously here, as it always is when one encounters a reasonable facsimile of a book one has longed...
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