Duffy's Rocks | |
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Author(s) | Edward Fenton |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
Publisher | Dutton |
Publication date | 1974 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 198 |
OCLC Number | 700820 |
Duffy's Rocks is a 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.