Miners Hill

Miners Hill
Miners Hill  
Author(s) Michael O' Malley
Country  USA
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Publication date 1962
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 306
OCLC Number 5060718

Miners Hill is a coming-of-age novel by the American writer Michael O'Malley set during the 1930s and 1940s in the fictional locale of Brasston, a steel town on the Monongahela River twenty miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It tells the story of Pat Riley, whose mother would have him escape the life of the mills by entering the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church.

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