by Phillip Bonosky
University of Illinois Press, 1953
Paper: 978-0-252-06684-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3552.O638B87 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Originally published in 1953, Burning Valley tells the story of Benedict Bulmanis, son of a Lithuanian immigrant steel worker in western Pennsylvania. Determined to become a priest, Benedict faces inner conflict as he witnesses the steelworkers' struggle against the destruction of their homes and the separation of classes that even his church cannot escape. As the story unfolds, Benedict loses his faith in God but acquires a new faith, in the power of the working class and the justice of their cause. Alan Wald's introduction focuses on the semi-autobiographical aspect of the book as well as its "multifaceted dramatization of ethnicity and race."
 

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