Book: Childhood And Other Neigorhoods: Stories 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.
Details of Book: Childhood And Other Neigorhoods: Stories Book: Childhood And Other Neigorhoods: Stories
Author: Stuart Dybek
ISBN: 0226176584
ISBN-13: 9780226176581
, 978-0226176581
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2003/10/15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 212
Language: English