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The Patch Boys
The Patch Boys | Jay Parini
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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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The Patch Boys | Jay Parini
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Excellent coming of age story about a boy finding joy even in the hard circumstances of the anthracite coal patch of NEPA in the 1920's.