{"product_id":"childhood-and-other-neighborhoods-stories-9780226176581","title":"Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised on the southwest side of Chicago, \u003cb\u003eStuart Dybek\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the writing program at Western Michigan University. He is the author of a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book of poetry, \u003ci\u003e Brass Knuckles\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the forthcoming fiction, \u003ci\u003eI Sailed with Magellan\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eStreets in Their Own Ink\u003c\/i\u003e. His award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntaeus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318462550290,"sku":"9780226176581","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_81e34a87-98d4-49f7-a93a-5248f32df072.jpg?v=1727555713","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/childhood-and-other-neighborhoods-stories-9780226176581","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}