Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game

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ISBN-10: 0140063404
ISBN-13: 9780140063400
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 01/27/1983
Dimensions: 7.76" L, 5.11" W, 0.55" H

Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game

byWilliam Kennedy

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Overview

The second novel in William Kennedy’s much-loved Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of the Albany sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor, until he finds himself in the dangerous position of potential go-between in the kidnapping of a political boss’s son.

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"Kennedy displays a truly impressive ability to write on a level with his characters, to share the way in which Billy, a gambler on the margins, thinks and moves."
- Thomas Flanagan, The New York Review of Books
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Details

ISBN-10: 0140063404
ISBN-13: 9780140063400
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 01/27/1983
Dimensions: 7.76" L, 5.11" W, 0.55" H
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