xxp Actually WK was in bloom way before that, but there were all of these reprints and new books in rapid succession, seemed liked (I belonged to QPBC, Quality Paperback Book Club). Esp. when the screen adaptation (which he wrote) of Ironweed came out, with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (Kael panned it, I think, but I liked it, thought it conveyed the somber, seamyy. sometimes desperate, vitality-mortality and momentum of the novel pretty well).
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