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From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, this book captures 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, and absurdity. It collects sixty-four of the columns that the author wrote for Chicago Daily News.

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"The hardboiled audacity and wit that became Hecht's signature as Hollywood's most celebrated screenwriter are conspicuous in these vignettes. Most of them are comic and sardonic, some strike muted tragic or somber atmospheric notes.... The best are timeless character sketches that have taken on an added interest as shards of social history." - L. S. Klepp, Voice Literary Supplement "Hecht is attempting to do for Chicago something of what Dickens did for London; he stands appalled before the spectacle of the streets with their tumultuous, mysterious throngs." - New York Times"

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

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    A Paperback / softback by Ben Hecht, Herman Rosse, Bill Savage

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226322742, 978-0226322742
      ISBN10: 0226322742

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, this book captures 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, and absurdity. It collects sixty-four of the columns that the author wrote for Chicago Daily News.

      Trade Review
      "The hardboiled audacity and wit that became Hecht's signature as Hollywood's most celebrated screenwriter are conspicuous in these vignettes. Most of them are comic and sardonic, some strike muted tragic or somber atmospheric notes.... The best are timeless character sketches that have taken on an added interest as shards of social history." - L. S. Klepp, Voice Literary Supplement "Hecht is attempting to do for Chicago something of what Dickens did for London; he stands appalled before the spectacle of the streets with their tumultuous, mysterious throngs." - New York Times"

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