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Title Rust Belt boy : stories of an American childhood / Paul Hertneky.
Author Hertneky, Paul, author.
Publication Info. Peterborough, New Hampshire : Bauhan Publishing, 2016.
©2016
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B HERTNEKY    Check Shelves
Description 223 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents A turning tide -- Horns in the hollow -- Rust and restlessness -- Milk and honey -- Where stories went to die -- The front pew -- Sanctuary -- The nation's first economy -- The prurient power of pierogi -- Life as they found it -- Rough and ready, tough and tender -- Moms who put out -- A flame that water fed -- Popularity, politics, and patronage -- Humility and its opposite -- Sure but not at all certain -- Curiosity as curse -- Light and nature -- More snoop than solicitor -- Of heroes and helpers -- Untethered -- Dodging a bullet -- Itching all over -- Like Ambridge with a "c" -- Rust: the patina of possibility -- Rescue amid the ruins.
Subject Hertneky, Paul.
Ambridge (Pa.) -- Biography.
Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Biography.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Biography.
Students -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Biography.
Baby boom generation -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Biography.
Baby boom generation -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Biography.
Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780872332225 (paperback : alkaline paper) : $21.95
0872332225 (paperback : alkaline paper)