- Brothers, Fiction, Homeless persons, Labor movement
"Set in St. Louis, A World to Win centers on two half brothers, Leo and Robert Hurley. Leo is an unlikely proletarian hero who acquires political consciousness in spite of himself; Robert is a victim of his own confused literary pretensions.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jack Conroy
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Covici, Friede, publishers, University of Illinois Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780252069277
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