Coming Home

Year of Publication
1945
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
378 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Lester Cohen
Publisher
The Viking Press
City
New York
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Abstract
Joe Drew, a wounded and disillusioned returning World War II veteran, struggles to revive democracy in his hometown that is rife with political corruption.
Notes
Union Station is referred to as Penn Station, as it is often known. Republished in the 1950s as Stella and Joe.
Author Biography
Lester Cohen (1901-63) was a Chicago native and writer of fiction and screenplays. He is best known for his international bestseller Sweepings (Boni & Liveright, 1926), which was twice made into a film. In 1931, he traveled to support, along with novelists John Dos Passos and Theodore Dreiser, the United Mine Workers strike in Harlan County, Kentucky.
Time
1941-4
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