The Last Fine Time - Couverture souple

Klinkenborg, Verlyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226443353 ISBN 13 : 9780226443355

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swank nightspot serving highballs and French-fried shrimp to a generation of optimistic and prosperous Americans. In the inevitable dimming of the neon sign outside the restaurant, we see both the passing of an old world way of life and the end to the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Verlyn Kilnkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, Klinkenborg has been published in the New Yoker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Making Hay and a collection of essays, The Rural Life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226443353
• ISBN 13: 9780226443355
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible