TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - physicians
KW - Italian Americans
KW - attorneys
KW - Irish Americans
KW - nuns
KW - priests
KW - police
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Lester Goran
AB - Daly Racklin is a Pittsburgh attorney who on a spring day in 1968 learns from his doctor he has one year to live. Racklin, haunted by his father's shadow, reminisces about his dying Irish-American neighborhood in Oakland.
C1 - 1940s-68
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Harris Theater; Oakland; Western Psychiatric Hospital; St. Agnes School; University of Pittsburgh; Cathedral of Learning; Hotel Schenley, Carnegie Museum; St. Paul Cat
C4 - Literary; Psychological; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Allegheny County Industrial and Training School for Boys is Thorn Hill Reformatory; Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Institute of Technology.
N2 - Daly Racklin is a Pittsburgh attorney who on a spring day in 1968 learns from his doctor he has one year to live. Racklin, haunted by his father's shadow, reminisces about his dying Irish-American neighborhood in Oakland.
PB - Picador USA
PP - New York
PY - 1998
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 - 288 p.
TI - Bing Crosby's Last Song
ER -