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Ghosts of Chicago : Stories, Paperback / softback Book

Ghosts of Chicago : Stories Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Chicago is famously a "city of neighborhoods" that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life.

In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally likewise captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a city and the interior details of his everyday characters.

While McNally resurrects Chicago icons and institutions--including John Belushi, Walter Payton, and Richard J.

Daley make appearances, and WGN's "Creature Features" and a morning show for children featuring a silent goose are settings-- he is ultimately interested in the human condition, whether it's railroad mogul George Pullman remembering his greatest triumph or the host of Romper Room experiencing her own awakening during the sexual revolution.

Other stories tell of everyday people who must confront their own private ghosts--an accountant who falls in love with a woman who is in love with a man on death row; the son of a realtor who discovers his father's secret life; a memoirist whose dark night of the soul leads him on a journey from which he may never return.

McNally may be writing about Chicago--in the words of a Chicago Sun-Times reviewer, "He may have physically left Chicago, but the city has never left him"--but like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, the stories in this book transcend place.

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