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The Width of Waters

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1959 (©1958)

Pages
  
266 pp

Author
  
Alfred Kern

Followed by
  
Made in U.S.A.

OCLC
  
3714241

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

Originally published
  
1959

Genre
  
Novel

Publisher
  
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Width of Waters is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.

The story is set in 1953 in Buchanan, Pennsylvania (a fictionalized Meadville, north of Pittsburgh). The town is celebrating its sesquicentennial and Jack Gaitz, a young public relations man, is in charge of the festivities, all in the shadow of the Korean War as well as that of the Wolfe family, owners of the textile mill that is Buchanan's sole industry.

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