Description: A powerful epic of Italian American life and a classic in the literature of immigration, Christ in Concrete focuses on a family struggling against prejudice and the harsh realities of Depression-era America.
Review Quotes: Praise for Christ in Concrete
"Written in white-hot passion."--The New Yorker "Robust and full-blooded and passionate, now and then almost to the point of craziness...[di Donato] has imagination and a healthy sense of poetry...sometimes one feels as though bricks and stones and trowelfuls of mortar have been thrown onto the pages and from them have arisen words."--Saturday Review