Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes: A Novel

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight.

So begins William Kennedy's latest novel—a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running g…