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The Coast Of Chicago
The Coast Of Chicago
Author: Stuart Dybek
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394574493
ISBN-10: 0394574494
Publication Date: 4/14/1990
Pages: 173
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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An excellent short story collection, full of elegant prose. Read it, and find yourself glimpsing Chicago as well.
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Stuart Dybek really knows how to write short stories...
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This is a book of short stories surrounding the history of Chicago. Some of the stories were not that well written, however not being from Chicago, maybe I didn't understand the significance of the story.


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