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From: Robert Zecker [mailto:rzecker@stfx.ca]
List Editor: Ed Salo <EdSalo@BROCKINGTON.ORG>
Editor's Subject: poverty & U.S. lit
Author's Subject: poverty & U.S. lit
Date Written: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:04 AM
Date Posted: Wed, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:26 -0500

Two novels from the '30s that are very moving depictions of different kinds of
poverty:

"Christ in Concrete" by Pietro DiDonato and "Daughter of the Hills" by Myra
Page. And for East Harlem Puerto Rican experience, the memoir "Down These Mean
Streets" by Piri Thomas.


Bob Zecker
Dept. of History
Saint Francis Xavier University

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