Made in U.S.A. (novel)
Author | Alfred Kern |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company |
Publication date | 1966 |
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]
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