Pagan Days is a semi-autobiographical novel based on Michael Rumaker's early life in Philadelphia and South Jersey during the 1930s. Told from the point of view of Mickey Lithwak, a sensitive young boy growing up in a poor, working class Catholic family. Pagan Days contains many of the themes found in Rumaker's earlier work.
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Michael Rumaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1932. A graduate of Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Columbia University in New York City, he teaches at City University of New York.
Rumaker's characters breathe like Rodin's figures—they are alive, real, sinewy, torn, ecstatic, transformative. Pagan Days enriches our literature... -- Jeffrey Beam
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