Download or read book Like Lesser Gods written by Mari Tomasi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place in the years before World War II, the granite workers of Barre, Vermont are observed and described by Mr. Tiff, the immigrant school teacher. He watches as the people around him live through birth, marriage, and death, never speaking of their fear or the hard granite dust that kills the men who make their living in the sheds.