TY - SER
KW - heirs and heiresses
KW - steel industry
KW - Iran-Contra affair
AU - Hilary Masters
AB - This novel with a double helix plot sets the first protagonist, Roy Armstrong, in 1930s Mexico, and the second, Walter Hardy, with the Iran-Contra Affair in 1980s Nicaragua. It takes a steel heiress turned revolutionary, Peggy Arnett, to connect these two threads to Pittsburgh.  A complex and sophisticated tale written in splendid language.
C1 - 1939-1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; North Side; Point Breeze; Lawrenceville; Polish Hill; East Liberty; Wilkinsburg; Homestead; Sewickley
C4 - Literary; Historical
CY - Sag Harbor, NY
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - This novel with a double helix plot sets the first protagonist, Roy Armstrong, in 1930s Mexico, and the second, Walter Hardy, with the Iran-Contra Affair in 1980s Nicaragua. It takes a steel heiress turned revolutionary, Peggy Arnett, to connect these two threads to Pittsburgh.  A complex and sophisticated tale written in splendid language.
PB - The Permanent Press
PP - Sag Harbor, NY
PY - 1996
RN - Hilary Masters (1928—2015) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and he worked in public relations, journalism, and in New York politics before publishing fiction and teaching writing. In 1983, he became a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
EP - 287 p.
TI - Home Is the Exile
ER -