Country United States Publication date 1966 Pages 369 pp Followed by The Trial of Martin Ross Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Language English Media type Print (hardback) Originally published 1966 Preceded by The Width of Waters Genre Novel OCLC 730054 | |
Made in U.S.A. is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.
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.
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