Duffy's Rocks | |
Border: | yes |
Author: | Edward Fenton |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | E. P. Dutton (US) Hamish Hamilton (uk) |
Release Date: | 1974 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
Pages: | 198 |
Oclc: | 700820 |
Duffy's Rocks is a 1974 young adult novel by the American writer Edward Fenton (1917 - 1995) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the Great Depression.
It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Timothy Francis Brennan as he comes of age in the fictional mill town of Duffy's Rocks, adjacent to Pittsburgh, and a parallel of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Brennan lives with his grandmother, a feisty Irish immigrant, as he searches for his missing father.