The Candy Butcher's Farewell
| Year of Publication |
1964
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
278 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
McGraw-Hill
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
After his mother dies, adolescent Henry Sneffer Jr. goes to live with his Uncle Jonas, a slumlord in a small town near Pittsburgh.
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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 |
1930s
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