Roscoe (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Kennedy
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, World War II, War, Lawyers, Truthfulness and falsehood, Corruption, Democratic Party
- Locales: France, Albany, NY
William Kennedy's seventh novel of the Albany cycle, Roscoe is the story of Roscoe Conway, the boisterous, engaging, and rogue politician who has made the Democratic Party what it is in 1930's and 1940's Albany. The book begins in 1945, as Roscoe has decided, finally, to retire from politics. A series of barriers, however, stand in the way, and the retirement has to be delayed.
Things fall apart when Roscoe's best friend, steel magnate Elisha Fitzgibbon, commits suicide, and his former wife, the sister of Elisha's widow, returns to add mayhem to an already volatile...
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