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020			_a9781594484056
050	0	0	_aPS3619.C53 _bE63 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC SCI
100	1		_aScibona, Salvatore
245	1	4	_aThe end _c/ Salvatore Scibona
250			_a1st Riverhead trade paperback
260			_aNew York _b: Riverhead Books _c, 2009, c2008.
300			_a319 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aAn incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel-it's " Memento meets Augie March . Didion meets Hitchcock" ( Esquire ). It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in northern Ohio. As the festivities reach a riotous pitch and billow into the streets, five members of the community labor under the weight of a terrible secret. As these floundering souls collide, one day of calamity and consequence sheds light on a half century of their struggles, their follies, and their pride. And slowly, it becomes clear that buried deep in the hearts of these five exquisitely drawn characters is the long-silenced truth about the crime that twisted each of their worlds. Cast against the racial, spiritual, and moral tension that has given rise to modern America, this first novel exhumes the secrets lurking in the darkened crevices of the soul of our country.
650			_aItalian Americans _v--Fiction
650		0	_aEthnic neighborhoods _v--Fiction
650		0	_aNineteen fifties _x--Fiction
651		0	_aOhio _x--Fiction
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