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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.
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago author? Is it a certain feel to the writer's language? A narrative sensibility? The mention of certain neighborhoods or locales? While the authors represented here write from distinct local experiences, some universals emerge, including the abiding influence of family and friends and the self-realizations earned against the background of a place sparkling with promise and riven by inequality, a place in constant flux. The stories evoke childhood trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, nighttime games of ringolevio, and the giant neon Magikist lips that once perched over the expressway, sharing perspectives that range from a young man who dreams of becoming an artist to a single mother revisiting her Mexican roots, from a woman's experience with sexual assault to a child's foray into white supremacy. This book memorably explores culture, social identity, and personal growth through the eyes of Chicagoans, affirming that we each hold the ability to shape the places in which we live and write and read as much as those places shape us.
In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek,
one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for
rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives
each tale his signature mix of characters--some almost ghostly,
others vividly real--who live in worlds tinged with surreal
potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie
adventures across frozen ponds, and a boy who is visited by a
miniature bride and groom every night in his uncle's doomsday
compound. Whether they are about a simple transaction, a brave
inquiry, a difficult negotiation, or shared bliss, the stories in
"Ecstatic Cahoots" target the friction between our need for
ecstatic self-transcendence and our passionate longing for trust
between lovers, friends, family, and even strangers.
""Streets in Their Own Ink" . . . has a gritty realism infused with
a sense of the marvelous." --Edward Hirsch, "The Washington Post"
In a city like that one might sail
Following his renowned "The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, " story
writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully
linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side.
United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening,
endearing clan. Through these streets walk butchers, hitmen,
mothers and factory workers, boys turned men and men turned to
urban myth. "I Sailed With Magellan" solidifies Dybek's standing as
one of our finest chroniclers of urban America.
Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take a most individual approach to storytelling. And the result to the delight of readers everywhere has been stories that reveal the mystery, joy, and enchantment in the most ordinary and incidental moments of life. These 33 exceptional tales showcase the peculiarly wonderful vision of some of the region s best-known or soon-to-be-celebrated writers. Each invites its readers to see the world through different eyes and see it anew."
In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places--in
garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms
at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el
trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent
heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of
fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares.
Chronicling what happens when Old World faith meets the dark side
of the American dream, Dybek's poignant stories of coming of age in
Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain.
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