The novel features characters that are present in some of Kennedy's other Albany Cycle books. The novel focuses on Francis's return (after being gone twenty-two years) to Albany over the triduum of All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day moreover, a surreal element is added to the narrative as Phelan sees and tries to interact with dead people from his troubled past. Ironweed is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, a bum originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son. It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy.
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