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Book Review of Ironweed

Ironweed
Ironweed
Author: William J. Kennedy
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


If you're looking for a real-life protagonist, this is your book. Phelan is a regular guy through and through, full of faults and foibles, stumbling every time a normal human would. For this, he's endearing. And frustrating. But throughout the book, you maintain a sense of hope that things will turn out alright for him. His story is worth the read.