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The patch boys

Jay Parini

1986218 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1986
first published
  • 1986H. Holt · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9780805000474
  • 1986J. Curley · 333 pages · ENGISBN 9781555044589
  • 1987Curley · 333 pages · ENGISBN 9781555042981

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.

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