O Albany. An Urban Tapestry

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: Reprint

Description: 402 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: William Kennedys celebrated cycle of novels has put Albany on the literary map. In this marvelous book, Kennedy offers an eloquent history of his colorful and turbulent hometown. O Albany! is part journalism, part memoir, all infused with love and lyricism. We visit the citys ethnic and social neighborhoods. We meet the uncommon characters who tread on Kennedys stage - Erastus Corning, Americas longest-running mayor (forty-three years in office); the Prohibition celebrity gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond; the back matriarch Olivia Rorie, who transformed Albanys slums; Nelson Rockefeller and the "greatest marble project in the history of the world"; the political boss Dan OConnell, who took City Hall in 1921 and never let go, even after he died.Embellished with fifty-five vintage photographs and eleven maps drawn for this book, O Albany! is a historical love letter from Kennedy to his native city.

ISBN: 067052087x