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4,850+ Quick-Read Plot Summaries. Downloadable PDFs. Subscribe for $3 a Month. The main action of Ironweed takes place over two days in the life of its 58-year-old protagonist, Francis Phelan, a onetime professional baseball player and family man who is now homeless.
Set during the Great Depression, Ironweed tells the story of a bum named Francis Phelan. Phelan is a native of Albany, New York who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son. The novel focuses on Phelan's return (after being gone twenty-two years) to Albany over the triduum of All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day.
- William Kennedy
- 1983
Ironweed is the remarkable story of Francis Phelan, once a talented major league baseball player, husband, and father of three, who has fallen so far from grace that his home for the past twenty-two years has been the street. Author William Kennedy takes us into the mind and heart of a homeless vagrant and explores the situations which have ...
Complete summary of William Kennedy's Ironweed. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Ironweed. Francis Phelan, haunted by ghosts from his past, returns home after...
Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. Ironweed is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, an alcoholic vagrant originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son ...
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Ironweed takes place in Albany over two days and two nights, Halloween and All Saints’ Day of 1938. Francis Phelan and his friend Rudy, a dull-witted tramp who is dying of stomach cancer, are ...
Jan 10, 1982 · BOOK REVIEW. by John Steinbeck & edited by Susan Shillinglaw & Jackson J. Benson. In this third novel in Kennedy's Depression-Albany series, the focus is on aging, bumming Francis Phelan, sire of small-town gambler Billy (Billy Phelan's Greatest Came, 1978); and again the grand-talking prose curlicues in extravagant declamations, levitates into ...
