Hot Ice | Critical Overview
After "Hot Ice" was published in Antaeus in 1994, it was chosen for the prestigious O. Henry Award for short fiction. It is one of four Dybek stories given this award; this story and two of the other award winners are included in the 1990 collection The Coast of Chicago.
The 1990 Antioch Review refers to The Coast of Chicago, Dybek's second collection, as "paradoxically vivid and realistic," calling his portrait of growing up in Chicago "richly remembered." Don Lee, writing in Ploughshares, focuses on Dybek's propensity for shifting from what he...
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