Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review "A memoir, with a smattering of local history, Fedo’s collection will engage any reader with his fond and frank reminiscences of family life combined with vivid recollections of his native Duluth as it once was and, in many ways, still is. Thoroughly enjoyable."
—Jim Heffernan, author of
Cooler Near the Lake: Fifty-two Favorites from Thirty-four Years of Deadlines"For Duluthians, this prodigiously chronicled memoir will delight, awaken, and inform you of a place you thought you knew. Rising above the delicious details and references is a story of growing up in Middle America at a time not so long ago that seems of another era." —Wing Young Huie
"[Fedo’s]
Zenith City won’t make you feel warm and fuzzy. But you will learn some truths about Duluth and about one of its too many good ones who got away." —
Star TribuneTable of ContentsContents
Introduction
This Is Duluth!Miss Weddel and the RatsThe RoomerSchool DaysThe VoiceBeware the Ides of MarchHe Believed Writers Are Made, Not BornSinclair Lewis’s DuluthDiners, Dives, No Drive-insThou Shalt Not ShineDad’s LegacyMy Father and the MobsterA Family Informed by Pyloric StenosisThe Unmaking of a MissionaryThe HillDiscovering RitaThe Grand Piano SmeltCousin JeanUncle See-See’s Secret?Radio DaysThe TreeKeep Your Eyes OpenBaseball DaysJoe DiMaggio Turns His Lonely Eyes toward the Girl at 2833 West Third StreetJogging with James JoyceAt the FlameFor a Moment Dylan Played in Our ShadowChristmas with the KlinesRemembering SatchmoBroxieBrotherhood Week in DuluthA Life Informed by a Lynching
AcknowledgmentsPublication History
