The patch boys

By Jay Parini

Subjects: Italian americans, fiction, Italian Americans, Fiction, general, Teenage boys, Large type books, Pennsylvania, fiction, 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.