Refresh and try again. I guess I don't see the humor in a bunch of crooks who are cheating people, beating up people, running bookmaking and other rackets, and hitting on every woman they see.
Insubstantial but charming, William Kennedy's Roscoe seems to unintentionally resemble many of the politicians it depicts.
Brilliantly executed proof of Kennedy's genius, it expresses deep, even insurmountable, cynicism. Albany, NY in this case. None found here. Roscoe Conway, in ficitional 1940s Albany, New York, keeps his buddies in political power and the wheels of the democratic machine working. Biography. RoscoeBooks (@roscoe_books) has 838 posts on their Instagram profile. It's always fun to read about the fabulously clever as Roscoe certainly is. Ultimately their lives revolved around sex, prostitution, gambling, cock fighting: greed, corruption, power. Not my kind of novel - and I'm not the target market - hence a three, rather than a two.
This is more pulpy and reminded me of say Daniel Woodrell or Elmore Leonard. Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs (Roscoe Riley Rules, #1), Never Swipe a Bully's Bear (Roscoe Riley Rules, #2), Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog (Rosc... Home My Books Avid book lover and former media sales mogul Erika VanDam had always dreamed of opening a book store. You didn’t think I gave you that lead-in for nothing, did you? ", Borderline three-star, going on two.
Old time, or maybe not, politics set in Albany after WWII.
If you're into political semi-thrillers* then this is your. PLEASE NOTE: The book quantities indicated on our site may not be an accurate representation of what we actually have in stock at the store.
Roscoe was born in Rochester, New York, the son of missionaries. This one got a little too sentimental sometimes. The downside of the novel is the mechanics invented by Kennedy to bring it all to a ragged conclusion.
Party politics, patronage, and corruption on a grand scale. And I find it hard to believe that there were in the 1920s and1930s so many woman eager and willing to go to bed with men who weren't there husbands. This book contains one of the best descriptions of how an urban political machine operates.
Gritty, spare, evocative, it's everything a reader wants in a book.
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