num_pages: 212
description: In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares. Chronicling what happens when Old World faith meets the dark side of the American dream, Dybek's poignant stories of coming of age in Chicago alternately appall, amaze, and just simply entertain.
language: English
title: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
titlecomplete: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Coming Of Age, American
ratings_count: 353
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Fiction
publisher: University of Chicago Press