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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder if the dominance of bildungsroman narratives in the shnovels (linked books of short stories) I've surveyed indicates a modern realization about the nature of growing up. It isn't linear or clean, a smooth line of story unspooling over years, and the collage approach of books like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527922.Local_Girls" title="Local Girls by Alice Hoffman">Local Girls</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12597872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Like the Joyce of Dubliners, Stuart Dybek writes with an exquisite sense of place and an amazing sensitivity to the dreams and dislocations one encounters in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. His last work of fiction, The Coast of Chicago, is one of my favorite books, and I appro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6612408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While there was no single story in this collection that I loved as much as my favorites from Coast of Chicago, I think that overall, this is probably the better book. The echoes between the stories, for some reason, really distracted me, although they probably would be more appropriately seen as a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11937978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't get into this book. I tried twice and then took a trip to the bookstore to buy a different book to read. It shall sit on my shelf and possibly get read one rainy afternoon when I am dead bored and there is nothing else to do. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Approaches Steinbeck's &quot;A&amp;P&quot; or King's &quot;The Body,&quot; or something like a book version of Woody Allen's &quot;Radio Days.&quot; Except about a Polish family on the South Side of Chicago. Excellent.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is somewhere between a 3 and 4 star read.  <br/><br/>Structurally, this is a really fascinating book.  It's a novel in stories, which functions on two levels: each chapter is a short story and the stories work together to form a larger image--which I believe is tremendously hard to pull off. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5983534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminded me of Henry Roth's <em>Call It Sleep</em> with a little Sopranos thrown in. One jacket note characterizes Dybek's prose as &quot;spare.&quot; I would not say so.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interconnected stories about Chicago.  sometimes I didn't totally understand how the stories connected.  All in one neighborhood or one family in the neighborhood - I guess.<br/><br/>I think I heard Dybek speak at a ALA program in Chicago which would have been appropriate and also would explain wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32535382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Dybek is, sometimes, brilliant.  There are few short story writers that I am interested in, and I'm always interested in his work.  &quot;If I Vanished,&quot; which was published in The New Yorker this past summer, was a gorgeous and haunting piece of fiction.  Lovely and thoughtful and stra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7850404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book from the beginning. I identified with each passage of his youth having grown up in Chicago, with the exception that he was a male. He has the ability to clearly describe images and even smells that were indigenous to Chicago city neighborhoods in the 60's and 70's. From the well kn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7561010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful, wonderful, book of short stories that somehow, inexplicably, add up to one of the most compelling and weirdly linear works I've ver cried my way through. Right. On that note,  I've never wanted to repeat the experience of laughing and crying and laughing and crying (repeat) the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2345893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dybek is, without a doubt, one of the best living American authors. Blurring the lines between memory and imagination, <em>Magellan</em> is full of haunting, magical stories about growing up in Chicago. <br/><br/>Note: It gets a bit to graphic with some subject matter for my taste, but if you can wade thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5732833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These linked short stories, about Perry Katzek and his array of friends who grew up in 	Chicago's fabled South Side, shows Dybek's range for voice, tone and lyricism. Dybek chronicles urban America through specific detailing of the environment and characters. Gritty humor, irony and song play throug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15237328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to live vicariously as a precocious boy growing up in the city, this book can create an alter ego for you.  So great!  And it's good that Dybek is documenting all of the great Chicago institutions before they're all gone (Field's...Berghoff...etc.)--- ugh.  Fun and imaginative stories.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6830353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I nearly peed my pants--Dybek can write a funny and touching coming of age piece that addresses both socio-economic struggles and the joy of childhood amongst a life impoverished.  Favorite story in the collection for me was--&quot;The Blue Boy&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite possibly the best thing I've ever read. I still get goosebumps reading Song and getting to that image that's on the cover of this book. Breasts is a must read, as is Live from Dreamsville and We Didn't, a language driven breathless piece. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and often dreamlike. Swept me away into the narrators' memories and sentimental notions. His depictions of childhood, especially the story of the brothers laughing together in their beds at night, rang especially true.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd really enjoyed his story &quot;We Didn't,&quot; so I read the book. Big disappointment. The first half of the book was all memoir-esque, stories that rode on nostalgia alone, not writing. The book does pick up steam as it goes though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a set of short stories that follow the same characters, but aren't really tied together with any kind of plot, other than following the narrator as he grows up in Chicago's Little Village. It's a beautiful book.]]></body>
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