ISBN: 9780805000474 - The Patch Boys (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING. The critically acclaimed, award-winning author's second novel. "The Patch Boys" is a novel about childhood's end, the summer of 1925, and labor troubles in the Pennsylvania anthracite country. Its hero-narrator is Sammy di Cantini, a fifteen-year-old growing up in a "patch," one of the poor housing clusters built near the mines. A person determined to rise above his class, at a time when background is still everything. Sammy comes from a large, eccentric family of immigrant Italians. It includes his mother, desperately trying to hold things together after his father's death in a mining accident, and his brothers-Louis, a budding gangster, and Vincenzo, a union organizer and local baseball hero. During the summer-a summer when Calvin Coolidge was president and America, too, was coming of age-Sammy roams the banks of the Susquehanna with his orphan friend, Will Denks; falls in love, disastrously, with Ellie Maynard, the Protestant girl whose world he aspires to (a world he mostly views as a golf caddy); travels to New York for a boisterous and dangerous week with his Mafia brother; dabbles with the notion of becoming a priest; and watches helplessly as his organizer brother becomes involved in a struggle he cannot possibly win." 218 pages. MInor bump to top of DJ spine. Slight yellowing strip to top and bottom of DJ. LF.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Tan paper over boards with blue cloth and gilt stamping on spine. Tan pictorial DJ with brown lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1986. 218 pages. SIGNED on the title page by Jay Parini. Pages clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition. Poet and second-time novelist Parini (Anthracite Country, Love Run, Benjamins Crossing, The Apprentice Lover etc.) here limns a fairly formulaic and unpretentious coming-of-age novel distinguished somewhat by its setting: Pennsylvania coal-mining country in the 1920's. 5¾" - 8½". Signed by author. book. …

Hardcovers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Beginning foxing on the top edge; dustjacket with beginning extremity toning. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Parini's second novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine sunned dust jacket with some minor rubbing.

paperback. Condition: As New. INSCRIBED on the title page by Jay Parini. Dust jacket in brodart. First Edition. U.S. orders are shipped from N.Y. state. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Small stain to fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 466866.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket price clipped and shows minor age wear to top edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Light foxing to top of text block, small blemish to lower spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 2231446. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket price clipped and shows minor age wear to top edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Light foxing to top of text block. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 2231447. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Novel.