![]() ![]() Francis, a former baseball big-leaguer, is now given to "alcoholic desolation," taking on a few bucks by digging graves. ![]() In this third novel in Kennedy's Depression-Albany series, the focus is on aging, bumming Francis Phelan, sire of small-town gambler Billy (Billy Phelan's Greatest Came, 1978) and again the grand-talking prose curlicues in extravagant declamations, levitates into hellfire profanations, and celebrates the bonding of an underculture's fine, boozy chivalry-like those pre-stupor moments in a Saturday-night bar when the consciousness peers into poetry and the cosmos. ![]()
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