Ironweed is the 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by William
Kennedy. It is a short novel about a hard luck bum who used to be a standout
baseball player and a family man who has a fallen. It was a tragedy that threw
him off his life’s path into one of alcoholism, bumming, violence, and a sort
of second wife with another bum Helen. It sort of reminds me of the alpha male
bum from the film Barfly. Kennedy does
an admirable job in detailing what has brought such a man to these sorts of
circumstances. I am curios to see the film version that stars Jack Nicholson.
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