- Construction workers, Fiction, Italian Americans, Poor
A classic examination of the American experience for hard-working Italian immigrants living in New York City's Lower East Side shortly before the Great Depression, Christ in Concrete focuses on a family's struggle against harsh economic realities and tenement living.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Pietro Di Donato
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 303
- Publisher
- Signet Classic, Rowohlt, The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780020195306
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