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  • The eighth novel in the cycle, "Chango's Beads" has its pleasures, but Kennedy never establishes the kind of thematic singularity -- as he did with his masterpiece, "Ironweed" -- that lifts it above its role as part of a larger whole.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • The eighth novel in the cycle, "Chango's Beads" has its pleasures, but Kennedy never establishes the kind of thematic singularity -- as he did with his masterpiece, "Ironweed" -- that lifts it above its role as part of a larger whole.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • In later novels -- "Ironweed" and "Very Old Bones," for example -- I kept, but reined in, the surreal, for I wanted my work grounded, not hovering.

    Remedios The Beauty Is Alive And Well 2007

  • His movies have taken him from Depression-era Albany, New York ( "Ironweed"), to the mean streets of Rio de Janeiro ( "Pixote"), from the penitentiary ( "Carandiru") to the pulpit ( "At Play in the Fields of the Lord").

    When Love Is Gone 2007

  • Streep 'losses include --' Silkwood '(1983) to Shirley MacLaine; "Out of Africa" (1985) to Geraldine Page; "Ironweed" (1987) to Cher; "A Cry in the Dark" (1988) to Jodie Foster;

    The Economic Times 2010

  • The panel was moderated by trailblazing producer Marcia Nasatir ( "Ironweed," "The Big Chill").

    unknown title 2009

  • Kennedy's acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, which chronicles the Irish-American Phelan family and includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed," earned him the inaugural O'Neill honor from the Irish American Writers & Artists.

    timesunion.com: Local Breaking News 2009

  • The panel was moderated by trailblazing producer Marcia Nasatir ( "Ironweed," "The Big Chill").

    unknown title 2009

  • But I can't watch even five minutes of Jack Nicholson in Ironweed.

    Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011

  • But I can't watch even five minutes of Jack Nicholson in Ironweed.

    Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011

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