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The Coast of Chicago: Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312424251
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0312424256
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: April 03, 2004
Publisher: Picador
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Picador
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Editorial Review:
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, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America’s most highly regarded writers.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Polish Kerouac
Ive just finished speed-reading the last pages of The Coast of Chicago (I had my public library deliver it to me via their shut-in service & theyll be picking it up today.) My Polish-speaking psychotherapist (from Chicago) suggested I read it because Im half-Polish myself (maternally; my Polish-speaking mother was even a postulant of the Polish-speaking order of nuns of St. Felix, the Felicians.) Reading Dybek is a frightening & disturbing experience for me because the Polish Roman Catholic ... Read More
Rating: - Geunine Stories of Real Chicago People
I have read all of Stuart Dybek's books and have even had the privilege of having lunch with him and discussing his works. Being of Polish descent, I have lived in the neighborhoods that he describes. All of his books accurately depict real Southside Chicago people and their histories, their hardships, their heartaches, their woes and their lifestyles. I read his stories and I am transported back 20 years to my childhood neighborhood. I am always overcome with a feeling of nostaglia after I finish one ... Read More
Rating: - A Stellar Talent
You would have to search long and hard to find stories anywhere with this originality and beauty. They will stop you in your tracks. Dybek has staked out a territory purely his own, the lost and dispossessed of Polish Chicago. Chicago has proudly produced Dreiser, Norris, Algren, Levin, Bellow and Farrell--and now Dybek. His work is enduring, funny, incisive and unforgettable.
Rating:  - Capturing the essence of Chicago
It is only fitting that this collection of 14 short stories was chosen for the One Book - One Chicago program hosted by The Chicago Public Library this spring. What a better way to promote communal reading in Chicago than to sponsor a book about life in their own city. While reading each short story it is apparent that Stuart Dybek has an intimate knowledge of Chicago. He successfully uses his memories and fondness for the city from his childhood of growing up in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods ... Read More
Rating: - Highest recommendation.
Lovely stories that take place in the intersection of dream and waking life, stories you'll want to read again and again from one of the most original and lyrical writers working today.
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