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Pietro di Donato (April 3, 1911–January 19, 1992) was an American writer and bricklayer best known for his novel, Christ in Concrete, which recounts the life and times of his bricklayer father, Geremio, who was killed in 1923 in a building collapse.
Oct 25, 2019 · In Pietro di Donato’s "Christ in the Concrete" we find a portrait of immigrants and laborers, so essential to the growth of the United States then as now.
Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992) remains to this day the preeminent Italian-American writer in American Fiction. His iconic 1939 novel, Christ in Concrete, is recognized as the definitive story depicting the Italian-American Experience.
Christ in Concrete is a 1939 novel by Pietro Di Donato about Italian-American construction workers. The book, which made Di Donato famous overnight, was originally published by Esquire Magazine as a short story in 1937, and subsequently expanded into a novel by the 28-year-old Di Donato.
Italian American writer Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992) was a bricklayer with little formal education. His 1939 novel "Christ in Concrete" was a bestseller, later made into a movie. His biography.
Christ in Concrete Official Site. The story behind the novel is an unusual one. Here it is told from two distinct vantage points: first, from the man who discovered Di Donato, Arnold Gingrich, the founder and editor of ESQUIRE magazine.
The novel was Pietro di Donato’s Christ in Concrete, which focuses on the struggles of urban immigrants back east who risked their lives for starvation wages in the 1920s to help build the sprawling cities that drove an American economic boom that would come crashing down in 1929.
Jan 19, 1992 · Pietro Di Donato was an italo-american writer and bricklayer. Born in West Hoboken in 1911 from italian immigrant parents from Vasto (Abruzzo). He had little scholar education but had a huge success with his autobiographical novel Christ in concrete published in 1939.
Pietro di Donato was born on April 3, 1911, in West Hoboken, New Jersey. When his bricklayer father, Geremio, died in a building collapse in 1923, Pietro left school to support his...
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Jul 1, 1993 · Written in sonorous prose that recalls the speaker’s Italian origins, Pietro di Donato’s Christ in Concrete is at once a powerful social document and a deeply moving story about the American immigrant experience.
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