num_pages: 320
description: Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond.  Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.
language: English
title: Legs
titlecomplete: Legs
genres: 20th Century, American, New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 1848
series: The Albany Cycle
publisher: Penguin Books