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Christ in Concrete
by Di Donato, Pietro; preface by Studs Terkel; intro by Fred L. Gardaphe
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0451525752
- ISBN 13
- 9780451525758
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Signet Classic, 1993. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, xviii + 236 pages, Near Fine condition. "Throbbing with reality, harsh, beautiful, & uncompromising, Christ iin Concrete takes the reader to the Lower East Side of New York City shortly before the Great Depression and portrays people rarely seen in American literature - the hardworking Italian immigrants who joined the construction trade & lived in the tenements near the waterfront. This genuine American classic ranks with another acclaimed book of 1939, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, as one of the century's great works of social protest." With preface by Studs Terkel / Intro by Fred L. Gardaphe / and bibliography. Check out the scans. . 4th Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
Synopsis
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009235
- Title
- Christ in Concrete
- Author
- Di Donato, Pietro; preface by Studs Terkel; intro by Fred L. Gardaphe
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0451525752
- ISBN 13
- 9780451525758
- Publisher
- Signet Classic
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Di Donato, Pietro; preface by Studs Terkel; intro by Fred L. Gardaphe Christ in Concrete Signet Classic 0451525752 -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, xviii + 236 pages, Near Fine condition. "
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- Fiction; Americana; Biographies;
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