This city is home to the Delavan Hotel, where Katrina Taylor is injured in a fire after falling in love with the Irish reporter Edward Daugherty in a work which opens by discussing the "Love Nest" murder-suicide of 1808. A history of this city is subtitled an "Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels." One resident of this city is haunted by an incident in which he accidentally dropped and killed his son Gerald, and that character's son bowls a 299 at the begin
This city is home to the Delavan Hotel, where Katrina Taylor is injured in a fire after falling in love with the Irish reporter Edward Daugherty in a work which opens by discussing the "Love Nest" murder-suicide of 1808. A history of this city is subtitled an "Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels." One resident of this city is haunted by an incident in which he accidentally dropped and killed his son Gerald, and that character's son bowls a 299 at the beginning of one novel. Novels set in this city depict the deep influence of Patsy McCall's political machine and lawyer Marcus Gorman being drawn into the circle of the gangster Jack Diamond. Those novels portray members of the Phelan family and include Legs and Ironweed. For 10 points, name this New York setting of a William Kennedy cycle.
This city is home to the Delavan Hotel, where Katrina Taylor is injured in a fire after falling in love with the Irish reporter Edward Daugherty in a work which opens by discussing the "Love Nest" murder-suicide of 1808.
{Albany}, New York