Ironweed (novel)

Ironweed
First edition
AuthorWilliam Kennedy
LanguageEnglish
GenreTragedy[1]
PublisherViking Press, NY
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages227 pp
ISBN0-670-40176-5
OCLC8709244
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3561.E428 I7 1983
Preceded byBilly Phelan's Greatest Game 
Followed byQuinn's Book 

Ironweed is a 1983 novel by American author William Kennedy.[2] Ironweed received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[3] and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle.[4] It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom.[5] The novel was adapted into a 1987 film of the same name.

  1. ^ Beacham, Walton (1986). Beacham's Popular Fiction. Beacham Pub./Research Pub. p. 723. ISBN 9780933833104.
  2. ^ Jordison, Sam (April 3, 2018). "Reading group: Ironweed by William Kennedy is our underappreciated book for April". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Jordison, Sam (April 10, 2018). "From a fortune cookie to a Pulitzer: the story behind William Kennedy's Ironweed". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "William Kennedy | NYS Writers Institute". NYSWritersInstitute.
  5. ^ Teeter, Robert. "Bloom. Western Canon". www.interleaves.org.