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Title	:	Legs (The Albany Cycle #1)
Author	:	William Kennedy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	January 27th 1983 by Penguin Books (first published May 28th 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Literature. American. New York. American Fiction

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Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond.  Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Original Title:	Legs
ISBN:	0140064842 (ISBN13: 9780140064841)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Albany Cycle #1

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I had never heard of Jack "Legs" Diamond. I guess growing up in Chicago, we had a surplus of local 1920s Gangsters. And, embarrassingly, I did not realize Legs was an actual person until after starting the book. But, really, it didn't matter. The story is great -- fact or fiction. Like a lot of gangsters, Legs has his streaks of sadism and generosity that flip at schizopathic regularity. And I found myself torn alongside of our narrator, Legs' lawyer, who also finds Jack both appealing and

Legs: life on the other side of the law; fake romanticism of the criminal world; vulgarity and greed, sentimentality and cruelty, sanctimony and villainy of mobsters; corruption and hypocrisy of society; fraudulence of publicity and prostitution of journalistsConsider the slightly deaf sage of Pompeii, his fly open, feet apart, hand at crotch, wetting surreptitiously against the garden wall when the lava hits the house. Why he never even heard the rumbles. Who among the archaeologists could know

I am on a streak of five-star books. Of course, when one reads William Kennedy, one knows they are reading one of the all-time great writers. As the back cover tells us, "Legs inaugurated William Kennedy's brilliant cycle of novels. "Legs" is Jack Diamond, gangster, tough guy, bootlegger, lady charmer and brutal murderer. The story is told from the point of view of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman, who exchanges a potential political career to view the mayhem around Diamond's life. It was a

Legs is the first of William Kennedy's Albany books and the story of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond told by his friend and lawyer Gorman. It is full of violence and humor as well as sex and loads of alcohol, a somewhat atypical gangster book actually. Enjoyable to read.The story is told in a series of vignette chapters each with the name "Jack" in the title. Each one fills in consecutive order details of the life of Legs and his relationships with his wife, his lover, his lawyer and his gang. The

Ironweed was so much better! This one just kind of drifted around aimlessly, in my opinion. It took me way too long to finish it! Not a very coherent review. But it was just OK. I never really felt like I got into any of the characters. The narrator is probably the most interesting character, but he's also the least self-aware and least introspective person I think I've ever encountered, so there wasn't much to chew on with him.

Great writing about a truly original character, Jack Diamond. A real bootlegger, told from the point of view of his lawyer, attracted by the unique heroism and bravada and humanity of one of the irishmen controlling the Catskills in the roaring twenties. A bit reminiscent of The Great Gatsby in its time and place, but better characters (I think, haven't read Fitzgerald since 1980 or so).

I really enjoyed,"William Kennedy's book ,"Legs!" I actually bought this book from a quaint bookstore on the corner of Dove and Hudson street not far from where I live in Albany, NY. As I was paying for it, the owner told me to look out the window and he said there was the house at 67 Dove street where Jack "Legs," Diamond was shot and murdered on December 18th 1931! He also told me to look next door to another old house next door, that was and still is the house of the Author William Kennedy,