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"The Question of Bruno" is set in Chicago and Bosnia. It is a book about the desolation of war and how an exile makes a new life in a new land. Its ... More

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These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of ... More

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A collection of 18 short stories focusing on the lives of black people in Chicago during the 1960s. With one exception, the stories examine the ... More

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The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of ... More

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The principal longer stories of this collection alternate with shorter stories. All the stories are about paradoxes - the sense of being foreign in a ... More

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Set in a solid urban landscape that may turn dreamlike in the blink of an eye, these stories balance homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar ... More

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John Belushi, Walter Payton, Richard J. Daley, and Nelson Algren are some of the Chicagoans who inhabit and haunt this new collection of stories from ... More

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As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which ... More

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This collection of short stories paints a vivid, humorous and satirical picture of life in the Mexican-American community of South Chicago.

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The mind- and language-bending adventures of Hemon's endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek This is what we know about Jozef Pronek from reading of his ... More

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Cowboys of the Old West, hoboes on the rails, sailors in the open seas, and miners burrowing deep underground have had their legends told and heroes ... More

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From the prizewinning writer comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, 11 masterful tales set in Chicago's south side and told by a single voice ... More

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In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the "Chicago Daily News" that his editor called "journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of ... More

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The stories of George Ade are energetic, detailed, and affectionate slices of the social life of Chicago in the Gay Nineties. Originally appearing in ... More

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This is the reissue of the award-winning stories of one of America's great authors. Set mostly on Chicago's South Side, these eighteen stories ... More

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In this stellar collection, Jonis Agee explores all the detours on the crooked road of love.

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The seven stories collected here-including "Killings," the basis for Todd Field's award-winning film In the Bedroom-showcase legendary writer Andre ... More

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Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film "Me and You and Everyone We Know," Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page ... More

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To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalkingthats what life can be like for the people in these eleven ... More

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