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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153198.The_Coast_of_Chicago?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Coast of Chicago" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172248813m/153198.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153198.The_Coast_of_Chicago?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Coast of Chicago</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56546.Stuart_Dybek">Stuart Dybek</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1151444?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>is dirty magic realism a genre? this is awesome in the old Chicago realist style -- Bellow, Algren -- but what I love is when things get strange, rightfielders die in some mysterious nether-baseball-game, frozen angels save the lives of drunks, etc... The middle story in parts, Nighthawks, strikes me now as one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/82199?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>