Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Jones, Kaylie | Hegi, Ursula | Schulman, Candy.
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Fine arts
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77375
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Working Class Hero is a novel about Nick Avellino, a twenty-year-old college dropout who returns to his working-class Long Island town to recover from a pair of recent tragedies: his mother's death from cancer and a fatal shooting on his college campus. To aid his struggling family, Nick gets a job working the midnight shift at the local 7-Eleven, where a confrontation with a customer leads to Nick being hailed as a hero. But with no witnesses to what happened that night, the police are suspicious of Nick's story and are determined to discover the truth. With the help of Alison Carpentier, a co-worker fleeing a failed marriage, Nick must come to terms with his past, his imagined future, and how seemingly small choices can change a life forever. | 196 pages
Recommended Citation
Sarluca, Daniel, "Working Class Hero" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3195.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3195