The Coast of Chicago - by Stuart Dybek (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Some of these stories were originally published in somewhat different form ... "--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, <i>The Coast of Chicago</i> is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Has claim to comparison with Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Joyce's Dubliners. . .Dybek's energetic prose produces dazzling effects." --<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <p/>"Moving and real and often brilliantly ambitious." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"A fictional world that is both ordinary and amazing." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Irresistible...Mr. Dreiser, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Bellow, Mr. Algren, please say hello to Stuart Dybek. He's one of yours." --<i>The Village Voice</i> <p/>"Establishes [Dybek] not merely as a talent but as a magician comparable to Eudora Welty and Joy Williams." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Tender and unforgiving...No matter where you grew up, after reading these stories you'll have found the coast of Chicago" --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Stuart Dybek</b> is the award-winning author of <i>Childhood </i>and <i>Other Neighborhoods, I Sailed with Magellan</i>, and <i>Brass Knuckles</i>, a volume of poetry. A professor of English at Western Michigan University, he lives in Kalamazoo.</p>
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