Book · Book · 1939
Pass it on
Christ in Concrete
79Worth an evening.
Labor, a parish, and a boy who grows up in one week. One of the true books of that people.
The review
This is the Italian shelf's real novel. Not the dynasty. A tenement, a job, a death, a parish that cannot pay the rent. The language is hot and sometimes overwrought, and the facts underneath are solid. A people that only remembers itself as cinema has forgotten the bricklayer.
Read it. It is short and hard. A son who thinks heritage means a table full of food should meet the boy who earned the table.
Journal
Keep Christ in Concrete in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 79. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 10Industry
Bricklaying is described as a craft and as the thing that kills.
- 9Household
The oldest son takes the father's place. The family is not a metaphor.
- 7Piety
Faith is in the title and in the women's prayers. The job is the cross they actually carry.
- 8Courage
The boy goes to work afraid, because the alternative is the family going hungry.
- 6Republic
The city uses them. The novel does not pretend the union hall or the boss is a parent.
- 6Temperance
Grief and drink and want are in the house. They are not stylish.
- 9Truth
Di Donato is writing his father's death, not a type.
- 8Stewardship
The skills and the grief are both handed to the son. He does not get to be a child.
Where to read
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Christ in Concrete · 79IMDb
