num_pages: 227
description: Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy’s Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time bum with the gift of gab, has hit bottom. Years earlier he’d left Albany after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died.  Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present.
language: English
title: Ironweed
titlecomplete: Ironweed (The Albany Cycle, #3)
characters: Francis Phelan
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Historical, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 16628
places: Albany, New York, New York (State)
series: The Albany Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd