Language English Media type Print (hardback) OCLC 1148437 Originally published 1964 Page count 278 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education | Publication date 1964 Pages 278 Preceded by Maria Light Genre Novel Country United States of America | |
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The Candy Butcher's Farewell is a novel by the American writer Lester Goran set in the 1930s and 1940s in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in Atlantic City, New Jersey
It tells the story of Henry Sneffer Jr., who after his mother dies goes to live with his Uncle Jonas, a slum lord, near Pittsburgh, where he endures his adolescence. Eventually he goes off on a quest for his father which leads him to the burlesque shows of Atlantic City.
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