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Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym. It depicts a coal miners’ strike during 1949-1950 set in the fictional Goldsborough, Pennsylvania, a company town near Pittsburgh. The protagonist is Carlisle Kennedy, Read More..

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Description	Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym. It depicts a coal miners’ strike during 1949-1950 set in the fictional Goldsborough, Pennsylvania, a company town near Pittsburgh. The protagonist is Carlisle Kennedy, head of a large family and himself a miner. When the local union chief fails to take action against the company, Kennedy leads a wildcat pit strike. Stefan Heym, a refuge from Hitler’s Germany and a naturalized American, began this novel in the United States after doing site visits with coal miners in Western Pennsylvania, but McCarthyism drove him to East Germany, where he finished writing it in 1952. The book was written and first published in English, in Leipzig, and released by an American publisher a year later, as well as in a German translation.Heym renounced his American citizenship in response to the beginning of the Korean War and lived in East Germany until his death.
Description	Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym. It depicts a coal miners’ strike during 1949-1950 set in the fictional Goldsborough, Pennsylvania, a company town near Pittsburgh. The protagonist is Carlisle Kennedy, head of a large family and himself a miner. When the local union chief fails to take action against the company, Kennedy leads a wildcat pit strike. Stefan Heym, a refuge from Hitler’s Germany and a naturalized American, began this novel in the United States after doing site visits with coal miners in Western Pennsylvania, but McCarthyism drove him to East Germany, where he finished writing it in 1952. The book was written and first published in English, in Leipzig, and released by an American publisher a year later, as well as in a German translation.Heym renounced his American citizenship in response to the beginning of the Korean War and lived in East Germany until his death.

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Name	Goldsborough
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Authors	Stefan Heym
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Genre	Proletarian literature
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Language	English
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Country	German Democratic Republic
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Pages	511
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Media_type	Print (Paperback)
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Oclc	220887147
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Publisher	Paul List Verlag
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Pub_date	1953
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Release_date	1953
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