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BookMark: The Patch Boys by Jay Parini

By SARAH MAY CLARKSON • February 10, 2010
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WPSU's BookMark
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This coming-of-age story takes place in a Pennsylvania mining town in the 1920's.


  • Parini talks about a poetry class he taught to more than two dozen teenage vandals in 2008.
  • Read more about The Last Station, another book by Parini, which is now a major motion picture.
  • Browse this collection of photographs from the 1930's that primarily shows the mining in Locust Summit, Pennsylvania.
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