Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

Name: Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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ISBN: 9781495379338

ISBN-10: 1495379337

ISBN-13: 9781495379338

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ben Hecht

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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…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 1/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English