TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Mellon Bank
KW - labor strikes
KW - trade unions
KW - Polish Americans
KW - veterans
KW - Korean War
KW - surgeons
KW - U. S. Bureau of Mines
KW - United Mine Workers
KW - Black Americans
KW - private investigators
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Horace McCoy
AB - Forty-three-year-old army surgeon and Korean War veteran Tom Owen returns home to Coalville, a hard-bitten, fictitious, Monongahela Valley town, after his brother’s accidental mining death. Tom falls in love with the mine owner’s gorgeous daughter, gives up his working-class idealism, and moves his medical practice to posh Pittsburgh.
C1 - 1950s
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; Hotel Schenley; Hill District; North Side; East Pittsburgh
C4 - Literary; Labor; Romance
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Forty-three-year-old army surgeon and Korean War veteran Tom Owen returns home to Coalville, a hard-bitten, fictitious, Monongahela Valley town, after his brother’s accidental mining death. Tom falls in love with the mine owner’s gorgeous daughter, gives up his working-class idealism, and moves his medical practice to posh Pittsburgh.
PB - Appleton-Century-Crofts
PP - New York
PY - 1952
RN - Horace McCoy (1897-1955), born in Tennessee, was screenwriter and novelist. He died in Beverly Hills.
EP - 373 p.
TI - Scalpel
ER -