Dybek, Stuart - David Montrose (review date 26 July 1991)
David Montrose (review date 26 July 1991)
SOURCE: Montrose, David. “Into the Underworlds.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4608 (26 July 1991): 18-19.
[In the following review, Montrose bemoans the British edition of The Coast of Chicago for being spliced-together and lacking in cohesion.]
Eight of the stories in The Coast of Chicago, Stuart Dybek's fine British début, have been selected from a larger volume of the same name published in America last year; the remaining six are from his previous collection, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (1986). The titles are apposite. Dybek's fictive territory is his native patch, the Slav and Hispanic districts of Chicago's South Side (frequently during the 1950s, “those years between Korea and Vietnam”); his protagonists are often children and adolescents.
All the earlier stories are third-person narratives, the majority with children serving as the centres of...
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