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Dybek's powerful peeks at beauty amid the blight
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900408
Author:Bruce Allen
The Coast of Chicago By Stuart Dybek. Knopf. $17.95.
This intense and flavorful volume of stories is the eagerly awaited successor to Stuart Dybek's critically acclaimed Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (1980), a collection of linked tales set in Chicago that has some claim to comparison with such obvious antecedents as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and even James Joyce's Dubliners.
Dybek's people are nominally disadvantaged souls who reject the traditional sociologist's view that they're victims of economic inequality and ethnic prejudice. "I dig beauty!" one of them exclaims. ...
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