Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Fiction
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy's Albany
cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and
full-time bum with the gift of gab, has hit bottom. Years earlier he'd
left Albany after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy
died. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar
streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts
of the past and present.