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Find more info., search and price compare for Chicago Tales by Bill VanPatten Binding: Paperback, 312 pages Publisher: Outskirts Press Weight: 0.75 pound Dimension: H: 0.7 x L: 7.8 x W: 5 inches ISBN 10: 1432706314 ISBN 13: 9781432706319 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: 'Last year the Virgin Mary appeared underneath the Kennedy Expressway. . .' . . .and so begins the story of 'Guadalupe' in Chicago Tales. In This collection of fourteen stories all set in or around Chicago provides a rich mosaic of characters caught in events ranging from the everyday to the out of ordinary. The psychiatrist battling his own demons while treating a woman who believes she is turning into a bird, the mischievous ten year old twins in 1963 who unwittingly put into motion a set of events leading to the demise of their family, a young Irish woman in an anti immigrant Chicago of 1871 who stumbles upon her mother's crime, the unlikely pairing of a middle aged vodka swigging atheist and a Bible toting college student who find themselves the last persons alive in Chicago these people rise to meet their challenges, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, but always finding they are changed forever. |
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