Mount Allegro
By: by Jerre Mangione, illustrated by Peggy Bacon.
Contributors: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987, illus.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Italians -- United States -- Fiction.
Description: Depicts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century as their customs blend and clash with those of their adopted country. Variously categorized as sociology, fiction, autobiography, humor, "adolescent fiction" (a Bildungsroman), folklore, ethnic studies, Italian-Americana, memoir, or nonfiction.