The stolid landscape of Chicago turns dreamlike and otherworldly in these ‘miraculous tales . . . a collection for the ages’ (Kirkus).
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.
In these and other stories, Stuart Dybek conjures a Chicago ‘both ordinary and amazing’. 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 (The New York Times).
Genre: Literary Fiction
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.
In these and other stories, Stuart Dybek conjures a Chicago ‘both ordinary and amazing’. 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 (The New York Times).
Genre: Literary Fiction
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