TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - students
KW - steel industry
KW - nuns
KW - priests
KW - police
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Michael O'Malley
AB - Follows Pat Riley, 13, who grows up in a working class Irish neighborhood.  “Pat Riley has long accepted his mother’s decision to become a priest,” says <em>The Washington Observer</em>, “instead of a miner like his dad.  Then, during his last year in parochial school, he met Leila, who opened new worlds for him.” 
C1 - 1930s-40s
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; Cathedral of Learning; Squirrel Hill; Frick Park; Braddock; N. Braddock; Swissvale; Turtle Creek; Wilmerding; Forest Hills; Pitcairn; Rankin; Whitaker; Homestead; Duquesne
C4 - Literary; Coming-of-Age; Christian; Catholic; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Braddock is disguised as Brasston.

This novel was reprinted later in 1962 as a mass market paperback with a different title, <em>Small Town Blues</em>.
N2 - Follows Pat Riley, 13, who grows up in a working class Irish neighborhood.  “Pat Riley has long accepted his mother’s decision to become a priest,” says <em>The Washington Observer</em>, “instead of a miner like his dad.  Then, during his last year in parochial school, he met Leila, who opened new worlds for him.” 
PB - Harper & Brothers, Publishers
PP - New York
PY - 1962
RN - Michael O'Malley  (1931-1997) was born in North Braddock, Allegheny County and worked in the insurance industry. He is buried in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery.
EP - 306 p.
TI - Miners Hill
ER -