title: Legs (novel)
text: Legs is a 1975 novel by William Kennedy. It is the first book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle.
  
  Plot summary
  The book chronicles the life of the gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond. It is told from the perspective of Jack's lawyer, Marcus Gorman. Marcus becomes involved with "Legs" Diamond to add excitement to his otherwise boring life, and the best way to do this was by immortalizing a highly popular gangster. Through Gorman's eyes, Kennedy is able to elicit sympathy for the criminal, transposing this sympathy into the context of America during the 1920s and 30s: excess, collapse, destitution, and analysis of right and wrong, good and evil.
  
  Adaptations 
  
  In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of Legs, narrated by Joe Barrett, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.
  
  External links 
  
   Legs (1975)
  
  1975 American novels
  Biographical novels
  Novels set in the United States
  Novels set in the 1920s
  Novels set in the 1930s
  Novels by William Kennedy
  Cultural depictions of Legs Diamond
  Coward-McCann books