Never a city so real : a walk in Chicago / Alex Kotlowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotlowitz, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.

Chicago (Ill.)--Description and travel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

159 pages : map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Journeys, [2004]

Summary:

Chicago is one of America's most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. It's a place, as one historian has said, of "messy vitalities," a stew of contradictions, coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself. Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It's probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He's drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up--or at least make sense of--the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn't come easy if you're standing in the center. Like "There Are No Children Here, this is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. "Never A City So Real is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been his guides into this city's--and by inference, this country's--heart.

Notes:

Map on lining papers.

ISBN:

1400046211

OCLC:

54416023