Title: Gas station
First published: 1996
Description: The rhythms of work and talk, the grease and grime of this gas station, are here in such precision that Joseph Torra's locality becomes everyman's. With sentences that surge and swing like a John Coltrane tenor solo, Torra tells his tale of a working-class father and son. This is an extraordinary novel in the tradition of another working-class son of Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac.
Subjects: Fiction, Service stations, Fathers and sons, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Massachusetts, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
LC classification: PS3570.O688 G37 1996