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      Christ in Concrete

      by Pietro di Donato
      Published
      Jul 1993
      Main Genre
      Psychological Suspense Psych. Suspense
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      236
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      Giving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as one of the 20th century's great works of social protest.
       
      Largely autobiographical, Christ in Concrete opens with the dramatic Good Friday collapse of a building under construction, crucifying in concrete an Italian construction worker, whose death leaves his pregnant wife and eight children impoverished. His oldest son, Paul, at just twelve years old, must take over his father's role—and his job.
       
      Paul's odyssey into manhood begins on the high girders where death is an occupational hazard and a boy's dreams are the first fatality. Written in sonorous prose that recalls the speaker's Italian origins, Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete is at once a powerful social document and a deeply moving story about the American immigrant experience.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Literary Psychological Suspense Thriller

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      First Edition Jul 1993 Signet ISBN13 9780451525758 ISBN10 0451525752
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      Nov 1975 MacMillan ISBN13 9780672521874 ISBN10 0672521873
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      Oct 2004 Penguin ISBN13 9780451214218 ISBN10 0451214218
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      Nov 1975 MacMillan ISBN13 9780672521614 ISBN10 067252161X
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      Sep 2004 Penguin ISBN13 9780593548462 ISBN10 0593548469
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      Jul 2022 Brilliance Audio ISBN13 9781978695450 ISBN10 1978695454
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