Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition - Nelson Algren - Książki - University Of Chicago Press - 9780226013862 - 15 października 2011
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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition Anv edition

?Once you?ve become a part of this particular patch, you?ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.?

Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren?s writing that ?you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.? The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its ?nobodies nobody knows?: the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets.

Upon its original publication in 1951, Algren?s Chicago: City on the Make was scorned by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and local journalists for its gritty portrayal of the city and its people, one that boldly defied City Hall?s business and tourism initiatives. Yet the book captures the essential dilemma of Chicago: the dynamic tension between the city?s breathtaking beauty and its utter brutality, its boundless human energy and its stifling greed and violence.

The sixtieth anniversary edition features historic Chicago photos and annotations on everything from defunct slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, ?the best book about Chicago.?

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 15 października 2011
ISBN13 9780226013862
Wydawcy University Of Chicago Press
Strony 152
Wymiary 140 × 201 × 13 mm   ·   249 g
Język English  
Współpracownik Bill Savage
Współpracownik David Schmittgens
Współpracownik Studs Terkel

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