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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)

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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)

The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the cityâ€™s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.

Chicago is one of Americaâ€™s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into Americaâ€™s heart. Itâ€™s a place, as one historian has said, of â€œmessy vitalities,â€ a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.

Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. Itâ€™s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. Heâ€™s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean upâ€”or at least make sense ofâ€”the mess on the inside. Perspective doesnâ€™t come easy if youâ€™re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the authorâ€™s guides into this cityâ€™sâ€”and in a broader sense, this countryâ€™sâ€”heart.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 10-11417
ReleaseDate 2004-07-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400046218

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