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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