Monongahela Dusk
| Year of Publication |
2009
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
304 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Hoerr |
| Publisher |
Autumn House Press
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| City |
Pittsburgh
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| Abstract |
Pete Bonner is a struggling beer salesman during the Great Depression who makes sales calls along Route 40 near Uniontown, Fayette County. When he drives in low gear up Chestnut Ridge through an upslope fog, he swerves, hits a human figure along the highway, and stops to help him. The victim is Joe Miravich, a blacklisted coal miner on the run. Miravich does not want a doctor, just a ride, and the two travel together, argue a lot, and finally bond.
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| Author Biography |
John Hoerr (1930—2015) is a McKeesport, Allegheny County native and journalist who served as a labor editor and senior writer for Business Week. He's best known for And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), the definitive analysis of steel's collapse in the early 1980s. He lived in Massachusetts.
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| Time |
1930s-40s
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