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Title	:	Christ in Concrete
Author	:	Pietro Di Donato
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 132 pages
Published	:	1939 by Bobbs-Merrill Company (first published 1937)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. American. Labor

Christ in Concrete

Pietro Di Donato

Hardcover | Pages: 132 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 747 Users | 71 Reviews

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"Christ in Concrete takes place on the Lower East Side of New York City shortly before the Great Depression and portrays people rarely seen in American literature - the hardworking Italian immigrants who joined the construction trade and lived in the tenements near the waterfront." Largely autobiographical, Christ in Concrete opens with the dramatic Good Friday collapse of a building under construction, which buries in its rubble the bricklayers working on the upper floors and literally crucifies in concrete Geremio, whose death leaves his pregnant wife and eight children impoverished. His bright, studious oldest son, Paul, at just twelve years of age, must take over his father's role - and job.

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(The following review also appears on my blog: https://trumpfiction.wordpress.com/20...) 1939 saw the release of two celebrated works about the experiences of downtrodden American migrants to California during the Depression: John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath and William Saroyans drama The Time of Your Life. Both would go on to win Pulitzer Prizes in their respective genres and enter the canon as classic American works of the proletariat in the Depression-era. Both would be mythologized

"Christ in Concrete" is both paean and prayer to the old immigrant Italian industrial worker. Like the laborers it depicts, "Concrete" lurches towards moments of joy without ever breaking through the unrelenting misery that is very much author Pietro di Donato's message. This is working class literature of the 1930s where the great unwashed are brought into finer relief, their desperate situations the fodder for heart-wrenching plot. In vogue during its Depression heyday, this kind of

Published in the same year as The Grapes Of Wrath, Pietro Di Donato's first novel is in that same neglected vein of American working class literature: explicitly socialistic novels about the lives of the poor, the lives of the downtrodden. In this case, the story is largely autobiographical: the book is about Italian immigrant construction workers in New York. In the opening chapter, proud father of eight Geremio is crushed to death when a building collapses, forcing his eldest son, 12 year old

A forgotten classic. DiDonato really captures the soul of the Italian immigrant and gives a realistic view of tenement life. A truly worthy read!

Why don't more people know about this book? An immigrant and second generation Italian-American tale written in 1939, also very much about class and exploitation--so much so that the movie version of it was banned in the US.

Couldnt finish it

Brutal, visceral, sensual. This book is thick with atmosphere and heavy with the pressure of Italian-american life just before the depression. Love the linguistic attentions and gritty realness. It is so lush with detail yet careful not to be so hyperbolic that it is not believable.