TY - SER
KW - adolescence
KW - abortion
KW - working class people
KW - amateur wrestling
AU - Joseph Bathanti
AB - Fourteen stories about Fritz Sweeney and his working-class, East End family.
C1 - 1960s-70s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind; Park Schenley restaurant; East Liberty; Dilworth School; East Liberty Presbyterian Church; Larimer; Squirrel Hill; Central Catholic High School; Mineo’s Pizza; Rudy’s House
C4 - Roman à clef; Historical
CY - Spokane and Cheney
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - Settings are disguised as follows: Central Catholic High School as St. Sebastian High School; Carnegie Lake as Highland Park Pond; and Ritter’s Diner as Finnegan’s. California University of Pennsylvania is referred to as California State College, as it was then known.
N2 - Fourteen stories about Fritz Sweeney and his working-class, East End family.
PB - Eastern Washington University Press
PP - Spokane and Cheney
PY - 2007
RN - Joseph Bathanti (1953 — ), a poet and novelist, was born and raised in Pittsburgh. He studied at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School, California University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and he earned a MFA at Warren Wilson College. In 2012 he was named the seventh poet laureate of North Carolina. Bathanti teaches creative writing at Appalachian State University.
EP - 200 p.
TI - The High Heart
ER -