Glory of Bums

• Title: Ironweed
• Author: William J. Kennedy
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• Rating: Four Balls

Okay, I think I have been living in a box or something.  I had never heard of this book until about a week ago when a guy at work gave it to me.  The gift was two fold: first, I am finally working with people who read good books and not just People magazine.  Second, this book was really good.

It is set in the late 1930’s about a man who ran away from the law and leaving his family after killing a man during a strike.  It is about his coming back to his hometown some twenty years later amid a strange schizophrenic back drop of him seeing past people he adversely affected (mostly by killing) along the way. 

It paints a bleak picture of those times and the things a man had to do to survive. 

And to boot, I just found out, through a google search, that it was made into a movie in 1987, staring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.  It even had a small part played by Tom Waits. 

So now I read a good book, and I have a movie to look for.

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