Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories - Softcover

Dybek, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226176584 ISBN 13: 9780226176581

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Born and raised on the southwest side of Chicago, Stuart Dybek teaches in the writing program at Western Michigan University. He is the author of a short story collection,The Coast of Chicago, and a book of poetry, Brass Knuckles, as well as the forthcoming fiction,I Sailed with Magellan, and a new collection of poetry, Streets in Their Own Ink. His award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines, includingThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Iowa Review,Antaeus, and Ploughshares.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226176584
• ISBN 13: 9780226176581
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212