- Maria Light
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Maria Light Author(s) Lester Goran Country USA Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Houghton Mifflin Publication date 1962 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 181 OCLC Number 1313097 Preceded by The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue Followed by The Candy Butcher's Farewell Maria Light is a novel by the American writer Lester Goran set in 1940s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It tells the story of Maria Light, a recent widow in a Pittsburgh government housing project called Addison Terrace as she tries to survive, providing for her three children and her elderly father-in-law.
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.
Categories:- 1962 novels
- American novels
- Novels by Lester Goran
- Novels set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1940s in fiction
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