The patch boys
By: Jay Parini.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Italian Americans -- Fiction.; Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Description: 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.