Legs (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Kennedy
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1930’s
- Setting: Albany, New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homelessness or homeless people, Crime or criminals, Ghosts or apparitions, 1920’s, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, Kidnapping, Gangsters, Organized crime
- Locales: Albany, NY
Characters Discussed
John Thomas “Legs” Diamond, a ruthless gangster and bootlegger. Brutal and ambitious, yet possessing a certain raw style, Diamond symbolizes the mood and energy of the years of Prohibition. Initially a second-rate thug, Diamond wages a violent war on competing bootleggers and builds an underworld empire that makes him one of the most famous—and most feared—figures of the decade. Diamond is also a man of rapacious appetites, with a wife, a mistress, and a taste for the high life. The air of power and magnetism that he exudes draws Marcus Gorman into...
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