Made in U.S.A. (novel)

Made in U.S.A.
Author Alfred Kern
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]

References

  1. "Alfred Kern, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2002".
  2. "Made in U.S.A., Publishers Weekly, 1966".


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