The Coast of Chicago
  • Published:
    Mar-1991
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    173
  • Age Level:
    14-17
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The stolid landscape of Chicago turns dreamlike and otherworldly in these “miraculous tales . . . a collection for the ages” (Kirkus).

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. 

In these and other stories, Stuart Dybek conjures a Chicago “both ordinary and amazing”. 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 New York Times).
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-1991
    • Vintage
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679733345
    • ISBN13: 9780679733348
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    • Nov-2003
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312422822
    • ISBN13: 9780312422820
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    • Apr-2004
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312424256
    • ISBN13: 9780312424251
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    • Apr-1990
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394574494
    • ISBN13: 9780394574493
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    • Apr-2004
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466806370
    • ISBN13: 9781466806375



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