TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - poverty
KW - Great Depression, The
KW - Polish Americans
KW - orphans
KW - Syrian Americans
KW - real estate development
KW - priests
KW - Black Americans
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Lester Goran
AB - After his mother dies, adolescent Henry Sneffer Jr. goes to live with his Uncle Jonas, a slumlord in a small town near Pittsburgh.
C1 - 1930s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Oakland
C4 - Literary; Children’s; Young Adult; Coming-of-Age; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - After his mother dies, adolescent Henry Sneffer Jr. goes to live with his Uncle Jonas, a slumlord in a small town near Pittsburgh.
PB - McGraw-Hill
PP - New York
PY - 1964
RN - Lester Goran (1928-2014), born and raised in a housing project in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was a novelist and professor of English at the University of Miami. He attended Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue High School and Schenley High School and he earned a BA and MA in English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more than 50 years he wrote fiction set in Pittsburgh. He lived in Miami, Florida.
EP - 278 p.
TI - The Candy Butcher's Farewell
ER -