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William Kennedy's latest novel is an account of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. The epic journey of Quinn carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and in to the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on your day than Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn and his exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife, Renata, a debutante revolutionary, face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature, and illuminates the energy of love in the presence of death. William Kennedy masterfully gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a breathtaking adventure packed with music, mysticism, and murder: a homeless black alcoholic, a radical Catholic priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill jazz legend, the imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway, Castro, and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes, provocateurs, and underworld heavies. That is an unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and redemption, set from the landscape of the civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany political machine.
