The patch boys

by Jay Parini

First published 1986 · 333 pages

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Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible struggles.

  • Fiction
  • Teenage boys
  • Italian Americans
  • Large type books
  • Fiction, general
  • Italian americans, fiction
  • Pennsylvania, fiction

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