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The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek''s classic story collection. 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. 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 Coast of Chicago

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    A Paperback / softback by Stuart Dybek

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/04/2004
      ISBN13: 9780312424251, 978-0312424251
      ISBN10: 0312424256
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      Book Synopsis

      The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek''s classic story collection. 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. 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.

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