Made in U.S.A. (novel)
Appearance
![]() | |
Author | Alfred Kern |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company |
Publication date | 1966 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 369 pp |
OCLC | 730054 |
Preceded by | The Width of Waters |
Followed by | The Trial of Martin Ross |
Made in U.S.A. is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.[1]
The story is set in the 1960s in Braden, Pennsylvania, a fictional mill town north of Pittsburgh. Protagonist Steve Hamner is a successful trade unionist for the fictional United Ore and Metal Workers, AFL-CIO. He meets Paula Montefiore, a displaced intellectual from a Kafkaesque Eastern Europe, who is seeking to make a new life in the United States. The two characters confront each other about the meaning of the American dream.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alfred Kern, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2002".
{{cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires|journal=
(help) - ^ "Made in U.S.A., Publishers Weekly, 1966".
{{cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires|journal=
(help)