The Flaming Corsage

Kennedy's novel, The Flaming Corsage which is scheduled to be released on May 1st, is the turn-of-the-century story of Edward Daugherty, a playwright, and his wife Katrina, and the effect on their lives of the notorious Love Nest Killings of 1908. Kirkus Review calls The Flaming Corsage a ". . . subtle, wise, original work . . . the most impressive entry in the Albany Cycle since Ironweed."

" . . . what he has given us is a thrilling descent into the nightmare of history from which Edward Daugherty tried desperately and vainly to awake." - Mark Shechner, Boston Book Review on The Flaming Corsage

"Kennedy's escalation of action and emotion throughout this complex drama is masterful. . . there is such beauty in Kennedy's prose and dialogue, such astuteness in his portrayals, that we are enchanted and even renewed by his contemplation of death in life, by the paradox of a flaming corsage." - Donna Seaman, Booklist on The Flaming Corsage

"At once prose-poem, historical novel, and theatrical melodrama, Kennedy's new book demonstrates an aesthetic exuberance beyond his previous work." - Harold Bloom on The Flaming Corsage