Out of This Furnace

432 Pages·1976·9.635 MB·English

by  Thomas Bell, David P. Demarest

OUT OF
THIS FURNACE

O U T OF
T H I S
F U R N A C E
BY THOMAS BELL
With an Afterword by David P. Demarest, Jr.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Copyright © 1976, University of Pittsburgh Press
Copyright 1941 by Thomas Bell. Copyright © renewed 1968 by Marie Bell.
All rights reserved
Feffer & Simons, Inc., London
Manufactured in the United States of America
Second printing 1976
Third printing 1977
Fourth printing 1977
Fifth printing 1979
Sixth printing 1981
Seventh printing 1985
Eighth printing 1988
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-6657
ISBN 0-8229-3321-7 (cloth)
ISBN 0-8229-5273-4 (paper)
TEXTUAL NOTE
Out of This Furnace was originally published in 1941 by
Liqtle, Brawn ^nd Company, then reissued by the Liberty Book
Club, Inc., in 1950; it has been out of print since then.
Minor textual changes were made in the 1950 edition, and it
is not clear whether these alterations were initiated by the
author or the second publisher. This new edition duplicates the
original Version.
To the Memory
of
my mother, my father and my grandfather

CONTENTS
Authors Note 2
Out of This Furnace 3
Part One, Kracha
Part Two, Mike Dobrejcak ii9
Part Three, Mary 209
Part Four, Dobie 259
415
Afterword
Acknowledgments 424

OUT OF
THIS FURNACE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
This book is a novel, fiction, and — allowing for
the obvious exceptions — the proper names used in
it do not refer to actual persons who may bear the
same or similar names.
With that said, this much more may be: I have
been as true to the events, the people and the place
as lay within my power.