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Name: America the Poor
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Author: professorjpj

A genius poor boy, growing up in Buffalo, NY, becomes a wanderer and survivor in America's cities, facing madness and homelessness. He gets into strange adventures and tragedies, eventually getting into crazy impossible adventures and surviving by his wits and strength of will and refusal to give up and die.

First publish date: 2021

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography

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