The High Heart

Year of Publication
2007
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
200 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Joseph Bathanti
Publisher
Eastern Washington University Press
City
Spokane and Cheney
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Abstract
Fourteen stories about Fritz Sweeney and his working-class, East End family.
Notes
Settings are disguised as follows: Central Catholic High School as St. Sebastian High School; Carnegie Lake as Highland Park Pond; and Ritter’s Diner as Finnegan’s. California University of Pennsylvania is referred to as California State College, as it was then known.
Author Biography
Joseph Bathanti (1953 — ), a poet and novelist, was born and raised in Pittsburgh. He studied at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School, California University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and he earned a MFA at Warren Wilson College. In 2012 he was named the seventh poet laureate of North Carolina. Bathanti teaches creative writing at Appalachian State University.
Time
1960s-70s
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