Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-

Description

1. xviii, 237 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

1. This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedneted confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.

Series statement

1. New York Review Books classics

Uniform title

1. New York Review Books classics

Subject

1. Domestic fiction
2. Psychological fiction
3. Political fiction
4. Fiction
5. Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
6. Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Fiction
7. Järnindustri
8. Afro-amerikaner > arbete och arbetsmarknad > Förenta staterna
9. Politique-fiction
10. Frères > Romans, nouvelles, etc
11. Migration intérieure > Romans, nouvelles, etc
12. Hommes noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc
13. Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier > Romans, nouvelles, etc
14. Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc
15. Brothers > Fiction
16. Migration, Internal > Fiction
17. African American men > Fiction
18. Iron and steel workers > Fiction
19. African American iron and steel workers > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Psychological fiction
2. Political fiction
3. Domestic fiction
4. Domestic fiction.
5. Fiction
6. Political fiction.
7. Psychological fiction.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also issued online.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain