Synopsis
A story of love, murder, ambition, and deceit, from the celebrated Albany novelist. Edward Daugherty is a successful playwright married to Katrina, an aristocratic Irishwoman. Their marriage is passionate but troubled, and reaches a crisis shortly after a hotel fire reveals some of the secrets that haunted it. Set amid the petty snobberies of turn-of-the-century Albany, "The Flaming Corsage" is both haunting and evocative.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-01-01 | | Series: | Wheeler Large Print Book Series | | Edition Description: | Large Print |
| Size | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 25.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Beginning with a scandalous murder-suicide in 1908, a novel that moves back and forth between the 1880's and 1912 follows the lives and fates of playwright Edward Daugherty, his wife Katrina, and their lovers.
Industry Reviews
"It is...a story that some readers will already know, and they will find a richness here that the uninitiated can't hope to experience. Above all, they will read with a sense of fatality...To read with such knowledge is to admire the way that stories burst out of other stories in Mr. Kennedy's mind....it suggests that this world already exists, fully formed in [his] mind, a world with more life and stories than any one volume can possibly contain, so that each of his books seems to spill out of its binding like an actress out of a too-tight dress."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Gorra (05/19/1996)
"...a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician....'Corsage' is a self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature....At just over 200 pages, 'The Flaming Corsage' contains more dramatic events, bright dialogue, and strong characters than most novels twice its length....In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us 'splendid nobodies' who are larger than death."
Time - R. Z. Sheppard (05/13/1996)
"Filled with precise details of Albany's vanished life, narrated in a prose both salty and exact, catching the vigorous cadence of spoken English, this is the most impressive entry in the Albany Cycle since IRONWEED."
Kirkus (02/01/1996)
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