The Patch Boys by Jay Parini

Posted in {title}, 2010-02-10

Sarah May Clarkson
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This coming-of-age story takes place in a Pennsylvania mining town in the 1920’s.

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Parini talks about a poetry class he taught to more than two dozen teenage vandals in 2008.

Read more about The Last Station, another book by Parini, which is now a major motion picture.

Browse this collection of photographs from the 1930’s that primarily shows the mining in Locust Summit, Pennsylvania.

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