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The Coast of Chicago

by Stuart Dybek

Interconnected tales of erotic longing and loss in urban Chicago landscape

About the author

Stuart Dybek is a Chicago fiction writer whose The Coast of Chicago is a lyrical, elegiac portrait of Polish-American neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side, widely considered one of the finest short story collections of the late twentieth century.

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