Francis his wino ladyfriend of nine years, Helen and his stumblebum pal, Rudy, shuffle their ragtag way through the city's bleakest streets, surviving on gumption, muscatel, and black wit. Now he's on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned, haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died.
The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.įrancis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town.
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