Pat the Lion on the Head

Autorentext

Raymond DeCapite (1924–2009), a native Clevelander, drew on his family and his community heritage as inspiration for his books. His father and his maternal grandparents were immigrants from Italy. A graduate of Cleveland public schools, DeCapite received both his B.A. and M.A. from Western Reserve University. He knew the harder side of fighting for a living just as his characters did, having worked as a shipping clerk, a restaurant employee, a cashier, and a crane oiler. He was the recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Ohioana Award, and the Cleveland Critics’ Circle Award.

Aaron Cometbus is a publisher, writer, and bookseller with a love for the small press.

Klappentext

Newly recovered fiction by an author "with an ear for American speech as finely tuned as Mark Twain's"

The third novel by Raymond DeCapite (1924-2009), Pat the Lion on the Head tells the story of Christy, an aging veteran who sweeps up at an outdoor fruit-and-vegetable market in 1960s Cleveland. Christy and his city are made real in the hands of DeCapite, an author whose devoted following is continually refreshed as he is discovered by new generations of readers. Through pitch-perfect banter with neighbors, bosses, workers, and family, Christy emerges as an indelible character forced ultimately to rely on his memories, his sense of self, and his appetite for life.