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      The Coast of Chicago

      by Stuart Dybek
      Published
      Mar 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      173
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      About This Book

      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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      General Fiction

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      Young Adult / Teens

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      First Edition Mar 1991 Vintage ISBN 0679733345
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      Nov 2003 Picador ISBN 0312422822
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      Apr 2004 Picador ISBN 0312424256
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      Apr 1990 Knopf ISBN 0394574494
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      Apr 2004 Picador ISBN B006U1C59W
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      Apr 2004 Picador ISBN 1466806370
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