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William Kennedy Pulitzer-winning novel
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Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy . It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. It placed at number ninety-two on the Modern Library list of the 100 Best Novels written in English in the 20th ...
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n. any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue [syn: vernonia ]
Usage examples of ironweed.
Everything was as it should be: the strong smell of sunflowers and ironweed in the dew, the clear blue and gold of the sky, the evening star, the purr of the milk into the pails, the grunts and squeals of the pigs fighting over their supper.
Heather clung to the rocks, and whitebark pines growing low to the earth provided nurseries for ironweed and mistletoe.
She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield.
Overnight, abandoned cornfields bloomed with head-high purple ironweed, burning and blinding and visionary.
The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation.
Kane and I were sitting on his side steps overlooking his urban garden of sooty dirt, broken glass and ironweed as he smoked his evening cigarette.