Steelwork

by Gilbert Sorrentino

Book Overview

Like a series of snapshots, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Korean War. In short, colorful, dramatic episodes, the book details the collapse of a basically decent, homogeneous, and honorable group of people into a greedy, ignorant, and slipshod conglomeration, corrupted by money made available by the war...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156478004X
• ISBN13: 9781564780041
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher