The Coast of Chicago (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stuart Dybek
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Short stories and vignettes
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: Chicago
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mythology or myths, Prisons, Music or musicians, World War II, Religion, Chicago, Emotions, Painting or painters, Ice, Animals, Mirrors or lenses, Heat, Windows
- Locales: Chicago, IL
Following Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago is Stuart Dybek’s second book of fiction. Dybek is also a poet, which may account for the evocative imagery of the latter work, a collection of seven stories interspersed with seven vignettes. The setting of the stories and some of the vignettes is Chicago, especially its ethnic neighborhoods and their worn-out industrial environs. The major stories in the collection—“Chopin in Winter,” “Blight,” “Nighthawks,” “Hot Ice,” and “Pet Milk”—feature young characters (mostly male) saturated with...
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