| A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Contributor(s): Hecht, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 1495379337 ISBN-13: 9781495379338 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.52 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The columns in 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago are scruffy time capsules of an earlier Chicago, an era that is long gone but still recognizable to readers' imaginations. Michigan Avenue, Lake Michigan, street names such as Dearborn and Adams and LaSalle and Wabansia, places such as the Art Institute of Chicago-they're all here, sprinkled amid Hecht's nervous little haikus of urban life. He calls Chicago 'a razzle-dazzle of dreams, tragedies, fantasies, ' and his tales capture gorgeous scraps of it, vivid vignettes starring businessmen and hobos and cops and socialites and janitors. . . . Thanks to Hecht, the Chicago of 1922 and the Chicago of 2009 bump into each other, shake hands, exchange greetings. Then, this being Chicago, they go for a drink and talk about old times. New ones too |