The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and
otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's
collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly
rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball.
Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed
into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and
heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The
Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly
regarded writers.