Out of This Furnace
Set mainly in Braddock, Thomas Bell’s 1941 novel follows three genera-tions of an immigrant Slovak family here. Bell drew on personal history, including a job at Edgar Thomson Steel Works, to create this vivid depiction of working-class life in industrial Pittsburgh.
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