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Payback by Thomas Kelly is filled with crime bosses, construction workers, hit men, and down-and-dirty union politics. Set during the New York building boom of the 1980s, the novel centers on the Adare brothers. Paddy provides muscle for a mobster and his younger brother Billy, a college student back for the summer who's working as a "sandhog," or a tunnel maker, beneath the city's mean streets. Soon the brothers' paths intersect as Paddy becomes involved in an effort to break Billy's union and things turn very ugly indeed.
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Payback
by Thomas Kelly
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Dorothy & Sidney Rosen's "Death & Blintzes" is a loving and very entertaining look at a specific place and time: West Boston, 1936, where somewhat-Americanized Jewish immigrants nervously explore a great new world. Sometimes it's the best of everything--great "nosherai" and fabulous movie stars--and sometimes it's a little frightening, as when a worker can lose a non-Union job through no fault of her own. Garment worker/detective Belle Appleman is a 36-year-old widow who enjoys her world but treats it with appropriate caution. When a fellow factory worker (the shop steward) is killed, who but Belle would have the chutzpah to "help" the Boston Police Department find the murderer? The novel's strength is in its honesty to a time and place which may well be forgotten by the time the next generation of American Jews comes of age.
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Mario Balzic is chief of police in a down-at-the heels western Pennsylvaniz coal mining town where most of the coal has run out. Not only does he have murder and drug-dealing to deal with, but he's caught in the middle of union negotiations: the town fathers want to show how tight they can be with the taxpayers' money, and his men want a big raise and two officers in each cruiser.
Balzic is unlike any other detective you've ever encountered. He's sympathetic to the concerns of his working-class neighbors, and fed up with the bureaucracy that tries to control his life.
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John Steinbeck beautifully protrays the plight of the Joad family in this most heartfelt novel. His real life experience with the hardships that were common at the time gives this incredible novel its awesome detail and realistic humanity. Society is represented in all aspects. A book about love and hate, betrayal and truth, hardship and sacrafice.
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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change.
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