6/8/2023 0 Comments Ironweed by william kennedy![]() ![]() However he is arrested before he gets the money and has to work as a grave digger to earn some money, working in the cemetery where Gerald is buried. His source of income is the McCalls, for whom he is going to stuff ballots. This time he has come back to earn some money, having lived life as a bum. In fact he briefly returned before, once for his mother’s funeral, but his sister had rebuffed him and again working for a few weeks as a mechanic but disguised with a beard. He had returned to become a top baseball player but, in 1916, when drunk, he dropped and killed his thirteen-day old son, Gerald, and left thinking his wife, Annie, would not forgive him. The first time was in 1901 when, during a strike, he had thrown a rock that had killed a strikebreaker. ![]() Francis Phelan, father of Billy, has returned to Albany in 1938. The novel takes place in Albany during the Great Depression during a forty-eight hour period. Home » USA » William Kennedy » Ironweed William Kennedy: Ironweed ![]()
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