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     • With its deeply human characters and rich historical setting, Ironweed provides a moving portrait of life on the bottom rungs of American society. Even as he acknowledges the futility of violence committed by characters like Francis, Kennedy suggests that such characters are, like everyone else, just trying to get by.
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   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. As the novel opens, Francis and his friend Rudy earn a few dollars by shoveling dirt in a cemetery in 1938 Albany, New York, Francis’s hometown to which he ...

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   Dive deep into William Kennedy's Ironweed with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion

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   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.

   • Author: William Kennedy

   • Publish Year: 1983

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   This Study Guide consists of approximately 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Ironweed. Get Ironweed from Amazon.com

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   Ironweed is the story of one man’s physical and emotional struggle for survival and redemption. All the narrative energy and insight is focused on this one main character, Francis Phelan. A man...

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   by William Kennedy. Summary. Themes. Questions & Answers. Characters. Analysis. Characters Discussed. PDF Cite. Francis Phelan, a baseball player during the 1900’s, a part-time gravedigger, and a...

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   Jan 10, 1982 · IRONWEED. by William Kennedy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 10, 1982. 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 hellfire ...