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The coast of Chicago / Stuart Dybek.
LIBRA Special PS3554.Y3 C6 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Fiction.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 173 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chopin in winter
- Lights
- Death of the right fielder
- Bottle caps
- Blight
- Outtakes
- Bijou
- Strays
- Nighthawks
- The woman who fainted
- Hot ice
- Lost
- Pet milk.
- ISBN:
- 0312422822
- 9780312422820
- 0312424256
- 9780312424251
- OCLC:
- 53982516
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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