Nine Bells at the Breaker: An Immigrant's Story : a NovelA novel on immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania early this century. It features an uncouth Pole who hoodwinks a bride by pretending he is not a miner and spends his life abusing her. A tale of poverty and making babies. |
Contents
Not Good Morning Not Nothing | 3 |
Never You Mind the Whistle | 8 |
Iowas Funny like That | 15 |
Copyright | |
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Nine Bells at the Breaker: An Immigrant's Story : a Novel Geraldine Glodek No preview available - 1998 |
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