Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
by Stuart Dybek
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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 show more stories of coming of age in Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain. show lessTags
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Stuart Dybek is the author of two collections of short fiction, The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, as well as two volumes of poetry, Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. A professor of English at Western Michigan University, he lives in Kalamazoo
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- Original publication date
- 1980
- Important places
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Epigraph
- Who'll show a child just as he is? Who'll set him in his constellation and put the measure of a distance in his hand? Who'll make the death of a child out of gray beard growing hard - or leave it there in his round mouth li... (show all)ke the core of a sweet apple...? - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Dedication
- For my parents.
- First words
- He appeared in spring, some Sunday morning, perhaps Easter, when the twigs of the catalpa tree budded and the lawns smelled of mud and breaking seeds.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Through swirling birds he waved goodbye.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
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