{"product_id":"the-flaming-corsage-9780140242706","title":"The Flaming Corsage","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e explores the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts, and furies in this thrilling novel in the Albany Cycle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, \u003ci\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of Edward Daugherty, a first generation Irish American who will break out beyond Albany as a playwright, and Katrina Taylor, a beautiful, seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life.  Their marriage is a passionate one, but a cataclysmic hotel fire changes it into something else altogether.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Kennedy’s Albany Cycle\u003c\/b\u003e of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city’s netherworld, and its spheres of power—financial, ethnic, political—often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, \u003ci\u003eLegs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Phelan’s Greatest Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuinn’s Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVery Old Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flaming Corsage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoscoe\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62243500949891,"sku":"9780140242706","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780140242706.jpg?v=1785403085","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-flaming-corsage-9780140242706","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}