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Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible struggles.
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This appealing coming-of-age novel takes place in a Pennsylvania mining town during the summer of 1925. Sammy di Cantini, 15 and very bright, lives with his family in a lower-class neighborhood called "the patch." With his friend Will, he spends the summer swimming, talking baseball and pondering his future and his sexuality. The latter seems destined to work itself out, but the former is an ongoing problem. With his father dead in a mining accident and his crippled grandfather a constant reminder of what awaits the men who work in the mines, Sammy is determined to avoid that life. He wants to be rich, and without much idea of what a lawyer does, he dreams of a legal career. It is only when his older brother is killed in a labor dispute that Sammy takes a hard look at reality and begins to think that maybe his only way out of the mines is the priesthood. Parini, a poet and the author of another novel, The Love Run, beautifully captures Sammy's authentic, self-involved young voice.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This is a beautifully crafted, lyrically written coming-of-age novel set in a Pennsylvania mining region. The narrator, Sammy di Contini, 15-year-old son of an Italian immigrant coal miner, comes of age in the summer of 1925. The summer, which begins idyllically, ends in tragedy when Sammy's older brother Vincenzo is shot while trying to organize local miners. In between, Sammy falls in love, visits his underworld brother Louis in New York, is seduced by Louis's girlfriend and generally has a lot of doubts about himself and the meaning of life. Parini's poetic talents are apparent throughout. Better than any recent writer, Parini successfully captures the contradictory notions of the adolescent male psyche. As Sammy reflects, "that was the worst thing about living: right and wrong were so damnably close that you almost had to try them on to see which was which." Highly recommended. Brian E. Coutts, Rice Univ. Lib., Houston
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The Patch Boys
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING. The critically acclaimed, award-winning author's second novel. "The Patch Boys" is a novel about childhood's end, the summer of 1925, and labor troubles in the Pennsylvania anthracite country. Its hero-narrator is Sammy di Cantini, a fifteen-year-old growing up in a "patch," one of the poor housing clusters built near the mines. A person determined to rise above his class, at a time when background is still everything. Sammy comes from a large, eccentric family of immigrant Italians. It includes his mother, desperately trying to hold things together after his father's death in a mining accident, and his brothers-Louis, a budding gangster, and Vincenzo, a union organizer and local baseball hero. During the summer-a summer when Calvin Coolidge was president and America, too, was coming of age-Sammy roams the banks of the Susquehanna with his orphan friend, Will Denks; falls in love, disastrously, with Ellie Maynard, the Protestant girl whose world he aspires to (a world he mostly views as a golf caddy); travels to New York for a boisterous and dangerous week with his Mafia brother; dabbles with the notion of becoming a priest; and watches helplessly as his organizer brother becomes involved in a struggle he cannot possibly win." 218 pages. MInor bump to top of DJ spine. Slight yellowing strip to top and bottom of DJ. LF. Seller Inventory # 003176
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Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition. Poet and second-time novelist Parini (Anthracite Country, Love Run, Benjamins Crossing, The Apprentice Lover etc.) here limns a fairly formulaic and unpretentious coming-of-age novel distinguished somewhat by its setting: Pennsylvania coal-mining country in the 1920's. 5¾" - 8½". Signed by author. book. Seller Inventory # 275964
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