num_pages: 127
description: Trapped in a dysfunctional, Italian-American family in a small, poverty-ridden town, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise clings to his deluded belief that he is destined to be a great baseball star.Published posthumously in 1985, 1933 Was a Bad Year offers a superb slice of American life, both funny and sad, and a pungent taste of the Italian-American experience, exploring such issues as the gulf between immigrant parents and their American-born children.
language: English
title: 1933 Was a Bad Year
titlecomplete: 1933 Was a Bad Year
characters: Dominic Molise
genres: Fiction, Classics, Coming Of Age, The United States Of America, Drama, American, Historical Fiction, Americana, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 3350
places: Colorado
publisher: Ecco