The Coast of Chicago: Stories
by:
Stuart Dybek (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312424251 (0312424256)
Publish date: April 3rd 2004
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Read For School,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Geography,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Cities
Smoky, atmospheric short and short-short stories. Pet Milk is a standout, while some of the short-shorts left me cold. Dybek has a singular voice, that isn't exactly haunting but is... well, muscular. Overwhelmingly male but not in a swaggering way.
A book I would never, ever have found on my own; thanks, Jan. Reading it on the plane ride home after a stay in Chicago made the words resonate for me, so much so that I've decided to send it as a surprise to a friend who loves beautiful words and who is headed to Chicago at the first of June.
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