The Fall-Down Artist

Year of Publication
1994
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
266 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Thomas Lipinski
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
City
New York
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Abstract
Carroll Dorsey, a 30-something private eye, investigates disability insurance fraud by steelworkers in mill towns. Carroll’s father is a powerful Pittsburgh politician and attorney who wants to attract new high-tech industries to replace the closed mills and earn himself kickbacks. Movement Together, a leftist labor group headed by Father Andrew Jancek, demands protection of all factory sites, reopening them, and rehiring workers. The group clashes with the steel companies, politicians, insurance companies, and especially Carroll Dorsey.
Author Biography
Thomas Lipinski (1954—2018), born and raised in Pittsburgh, worked as a social worker, an auto repo man, a jail administrator, and an insurance investigator. He earned a MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and was professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Time
1984
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