Description
Title: East Liberty
Author: Joseph Bathanti
ISBN: 9781889199085
Publisher: Banks Channel Books
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : In the late ’50s and early ’60s, in a rough, Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Bobby Renzo is growing up fatherless in the care of his beautiful and mysterious mother, Francene. At school the nuns worry about his single-parent home, but Bobby and Francene are happy. Occasionally she brings a man to her bedroom, and Bobby is shut out, but that doesn’t happen often. Most evenings mother and son watch movies or wrestling on TV while nibbling treats brought from Francene’s job at the candy counter at Sears. Bobby likes school, too, intrigued with the possibility of becoming a priest — but also driven to commit small crimes with his tough friends. And oh — to become an important Big League baseball player. And to daydream about the father he has never known, who Francene won’t time, Bobby is forced to confront the realities of his situation. His mother is on the outs with her Italian-born parents, and this has something to do with his father. His calling to the priesthood is challenged by his reaction to a classmate’s pictures of nude women. His world view, shaped equally by old movies and baseball and the teachings of the Church, is probably not normal at all. Or is it? In this lively, literary coming-of-age novel, Bobby begins to come to terms with the contradictions that rule his life.
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