Albany Cycle

Ironweed
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a de...
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution fro...
Roscoe
Insubstantial but charming, William Kennedy's Roscoe seems to unintentionally resemble many of...
The Flaming Corsage
In a Manhattan hotel room, the "Love Nest Killings of 1908" take place. But the mystery of who...
Very Old Bones
It is 1958 and the Phelan clan has gathered to hear Peter Phelan's will, read by the living Pet...
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
The second novel in William Kennedy’s much-loved Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly...
Quinn's Book
From the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate Maud Fallon from the icy waters of the Hud...