Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories (1980)

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 stories of coming of age in Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain.… (more)

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PEN/Hemingway Award (Nominee – Special Citation - 1981)

Society of Midland Authors Award (Winner – Fiction – 1981)

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1980

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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 like the core of a sweet apple...? - Rainer Maria Rilke

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For my parents.

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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.

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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 stories of coming of age in Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain.

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