Pick-and-Shovel Poet The Journeys of Pascal d'Angelo

Name: Pick-and-Shovel Poet The Journeys of Pascal d'Angelo
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ISBN: 9780395776100

ISBN-10: 0395776104

ISBN-13: 9780395776100

Edition: 2000 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Jim Murphy

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In this inspiring biography, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy tells the unique story of Pascal D"Angelo, who came to America in 1910 at the age of sixteen. Like so many immigrants from southern Italy and other parts of Europe, he took on the only job available to him, that of a manual laborer building roads and railways. Though his life was difficult, Pascal remained optimistic and never lost his sense of wonder at the world around him. He yearned for an outlet to express his passion, and so, remarkably, he taught himself English from newspapers and poetry books, in the process becoming a respected poet himself. Augmented with parallel references to other immigrant stories and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



A Word About Pascal D'Angelo



"We Were Going into the Unknown"



"A Continuous Startling Whirl"



Con Artists, Payoffs, and Doctors



"I Entertained Great Doubts"



The Island of Tears



"We Set to Digging"



Birds of Passage



"I Am Nothing More Than a Dog"



"Now I Began to Read"



"The Great Lesson of America"



"When the Night Comes"


Bibliography and Sources


Index