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Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr Special
Published: Mar 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 173
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.