Maria Light
Year of Publication |
1962
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Publication Type |
Novel
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
181 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
Lester Goran |
Publisher |
Houghton Mifflin Company
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City |
Boston
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Abstract |
Maria Light, a recent widow in the Addison Terrace housing project, struggles to provide for her three children and her elderly father-in-law.
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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 |
1940s-50s
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