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Title: The Coast of Chicago : Stories by Stuart Dybek ISBN: 0-312-42282-2 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highest recommendation.
Comment: Lovely stories that take place in the intersection of dream and waking life, stories you'll want to read again and again from one of the most original and lyrical writers working today.
Rating: 5
Summary: 'Pet Milk' does a body good
Comment: Stuart Dybek is truly a gifted writer. But moving beyond my humble opinion, this unique collection of short stories shines. Dybek's prose is haunting, his language at times startling and spare, at others languid and nearly musical. His characters are alive and absolutely believable in their mistakes and victories. Each story stands as a reflection on everyday beauty; Dybek that takes time to notice the details other authors overlook or dismiss as mundane. In 'The Coast of Chicago' Stuart Dybek has managed to do something quite rare in the all-too self-conscious realm of short story writing-- create stories that are rich yet still real without trying too hard to be so. Allow yourself to get sucked up into the twisting paths of his Chicago-- it's a journey you won't regret.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful writer
Comment: Dybek is one of those few writers whose work finds rare common ground between comic naturalism and tragic myth. The language of his stories honors the special poetry of the working class -- a poetry elastic enough to range from street slang to high diction, and from cynicism to a stubborn innocence that approaches the heroic (a touch of Damon Runyan at the one end, a mythic reach at the other). His characters struggle with their hearts and minds in ways that are fresh and original, without giving the sense that Dybek is contriving to keep them so. He is the genuine article, a natural myth-maker with an empathy large enough to let his characters behave badly without trying either to condemn or justify them. Dybek seems awed and enthralled by his world, deeply attentive to its particulars, on the lookout for magic but not desperate for it, with a richness of vision that makes his mythic Chicago echo loudly with the voices of the world at large. A wonderful writer.
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Title: I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek ISBN: 0374174075 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories by Stuart Dybek ISBN: 0226176584 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Chicago Stories by John Miller, Genevieve Anderson, Stuart Dybek ISBN: 0811839745 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0446671924 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill ISBN: 0679723277 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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