I sailed with Magellan / Stuart Dybek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dybek, Stuart, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Summary:

From the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a major new work of fiction: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice of remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed with Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality in the stark neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side, where his hero, the restless Perry Katzek, transforms his daily experiences into lush, imaginative adventures. In each of Dybek's intertwined episodes there is remarkable music, the rhythm of a street culture captured in all its emotional depth and unexpected humor: a man takes his young nephew to a string of taverns, where the boy sings for his uncle's bourbon; a small-time thug is distracted from making a hit by the mysterious reappearance of several ex-girlfriends; two unemployed youths hatch a scheme to finance their road trip to Mexico by selling orchids stolen from the rich side of town; a young couple's amorous beach adventure is interrupted when an unexpected visitor washes ashore. As these poignant chapters unfold with sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic results, Perry Katzek grapples with the exotic possibilities that the world offers him, finding them even beneath the often brutal surface of Chicago life. Throughout I Sailed with Magellan, readers will rediscover the captivating storytelling, the sharp, spare prose, and the brilliant dramatization of resilient, inventive humanity that mark Stuart Dybek's work.

Contents:

Song 3

Live from Dreamsville 25

Undertow 41

Breasts 57

Blue Boy 123

Orchids 167

Lunch at the Loyola Arms 215

We Didn't 233

Que Quieres 247

A Minor Mood 277

Je Reviens 287.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374174075

OCLC:

52086578

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