Bing Crosby's Last Song
| Year of Publication |
1998
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
288 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Picador USA
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
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.
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| Notes |
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.
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| Author Biography |
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.
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| Time |
1940s-68
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