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Duffy's Rocks Author(s) Edward Fenton Country USA Language English Publisher Dutton Publication date 1974 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 198 OCLC Number 700820 Duffy's Rocks is a young adult novel by the American writer Edward Fenton (1917–1995) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression.
It tells the story of fourteen year old Timothy Francis Brennan as he comes of age in the fictional mill town of Duffy's Rocks, adjacent to Pittsburgh, and a parallel of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Brennan lives with his grandmother, a feisty Irish immigrant, as he searches for his missing father.
References
- Demarest, David P. (1976). From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1123-X.
- Fenton, Edward (1974). Duffy's Rocks. New York: Dutton.
Categories:- 1974 novels
- American young adult novels
- Novels set in Pennsylvania
- Great Depression novels
- 1970s novel stubs
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