The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco ( Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.

The sixth novel in Kennedy's Albany Cycle.

The rest of the volume describes the author's own experiences, chiefly at Oswego, where her father's regiment was stationed, and afterwards at Albany.

Paints a detailed picture of everyday life in an early American community.

A poignant autobiographical novel about growing up poor in America during the Depression follows the life of six-year-old Jean-Luc, living with his little sister and young mother after being abandoned by his con artist father, in the middle ...

An historical profile of the capital of New York documents the neighborhoods, ethicity, culture, society, and colorful people of Albany.