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Posthumous Peter Oresick book finds Pittsburgh in everything

Local writer Peter Oresick’s son found a way to mourn his late father by working to complete his study of the Pittsburgh novel. ....

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'The Pittsburgh Novel' catalogs Western Pennsylvania fiction back to the late 1700s

As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a novel by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser. In the book, Peter recognized settings and surnames from his hometown – and that was the start ....

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