Bing Crosby's Last Song

Year of Publication
1998
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
288 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Lester Goran
Publisher
Picador USA
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.
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.
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.
Time
1940s-68
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