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William Kennedy’s Albany cycle of novels does for Albany “what James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago” (James Atlas, Vogue) and includes Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Legs and Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Independence Day, the first book to win both honors. Love and our failure to meet its challenges is the subject of Ford's new story collection, A Multitude of Sins.