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Monongahela Dusk

Monongahela Dusk

Hoerr, John

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Series: Autumn House Fiction

Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1932870318
ISBN13: 9781932870312
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

John Hoerr's Monongahela Dusk is a stunning novel exploring real-life events set in 1930s industrial Pittsburgh.

In 1937, as labor turmoil sweeps across western Pennsylvania, traveling beer salesman Pete Bonner picks up hitchhiker Joe Miravich, a blacklisted coal miner running from the law. The two overhear a plot to kill a national union leader in Pittsburgh and warn the intended victim only to become targets of the man who ordered the assassination, a mysterious industrialist who conspires with racketeers to control mill-town politics. As the industrial region moves from Depression to postwar prosperity, the businessman and union militant form an unlikely alliance to defend themselves. A violent showdown reveals the exploitative nature of the economic and political powers that would, forty years later, turn the mill towns of the Monongahela Valley into blighted relics of the industrial era.

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