The Ink Truck Author:William Kennedy Bailey, the buffoonish hero of The Ink Truck, is a former columnist for, and now full-time striker against, a newspaper in a medium-sized American city strongly resembling Albany, New York. An inspired rhetorician but a clumsy tactician, he now commands a ragtag remnant of but four strikers. His schemes against the company -- including an attemp... more »t to bleed the newspaper's ink truck dry and an act of arson against a group of gypsy thugs -- inevitably backfire, spiraling him and his dwindling band into ever wilder and more surreal misadventures. Here is William Kennedy at the start of his career--inventive, lyrical, and, as always, filled with instinctive sympathy for the underdog.
"Lean, energetic, and grounded in detail and humanity ... a bawdy Celtic romp." --Time
"A bawdy, careening, strong, farcical, and sentimental tale. Its adventurous layering of reality and hallucinatory fantasy foreshadows Kennedy's ... handling of technique in his award-winning Ironweed." --Los Angeles Times« less