Steelwork
By: Gilbert Sorrentino.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Elmwood Park, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Neighborhood -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: Like a series of snapshots, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Korean War. In short, colorful, dramatic episodes, the book details the collapse of a basically decent, homogeneous, and honorable group of people into a greedy, ignorant, and slipshod conglomeration, corrupted by money made available by the war economy.