Blood on the Forge: A Novel

[New York]: Collier, 1970. 12mo pocketbook in color illus wraps; xviii, 237 pages 18 cm A remarkably fiune an dunread copy of the pocketbook edition with only the very faintrst of edge-wear. Paperback.

Scarce in such fine condition. Black fiction; proletariat fiction. "This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedneted confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction."—Publisher. / African American iron and steel workers -- Fiction. Iron and steel workers -- Fiction. African American men -- Fiction. Migration, Internal -- Fiction. Brothers -- Fiction. American fiction -- 20th century. Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Hommes noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Migration intérieure -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Frères -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Roman américain -- 20e siècle. American fiction. African American iron and steel workers. African American men. Brothers. Iron and steel workers. Migration, Internal. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Political fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Political fiction. Domestic fiction. Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Fiction. Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.