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Very Old Bones

✍ Scribed by William Kennedy

Book ID
112323616
Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
649 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781504042123

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✦ Synopsis

From a Pulitzer Prize -winning author: "An immensely gratifying novel" of an Irish-American clan whose exploits changed Albany forever (The Boston Globe).
When it was built, the Phelan mansion was the only home on the block. In the decades since, countless tragedies have swept through its rambling halls, but no matter how many times its foundations have been rocked, the old house still stands. Now, in 1958, its sole occupants are the eccentric old painter Peter Phelan and his illegitimate son, Orson, who sees all--but says nothing. When Peter invites his remaining family to hear him read his will aloud, it forces the Phelan clan to reckon with the most powerful force in Albany: their own tortured history.

Unveiling a series of portraits inspired by family tragedy, Peter takes the Phelans back into the past, as far as 1887, forcing them to come face-to-face with the origins of the family curse. As the raucous narrative unfolds, Orson does...

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