All I Could See from Where I Stood

Year of Publication
1963
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
220 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: George Christy
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Company
City
Indianapolis
Genre
Literary
Coming-of-Age
Keywords
Roman Catholics
Italian Americans
librarians
Polish Americans
Croatian Americans
high school students
Greek Americans
Greek Orthodox Christians
suicide
steel industry
priests
Black Americans
Abstract
Stephanos Hermes hates his Greekness and immigrant parents as he struggles to Americanize himself into 1930s Mon Valley culture.
Notes

Monessen is disguised as Commandment Hill.
Author Biography
George Christy (1927—2020), born George Stupakis in Monessen, Pennsylvania, studied at Carnegie Tech and for many years was “party-and-publicity” columnist for The Hollywood Reporter.
Time
1939-40
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