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Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life
ISBN: 9780452295438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."--Chicago Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking. As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink,... "A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."--Chicago Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinb... |
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104,08 zł |
Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
ISBN: 9780226779843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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109,20 zł |
You Were Never in Chicago
ISBN: 9780226104157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, "You were never in Chicago." Neil Steinberg has lived in and around Chicago for more than three decades--ever since he left his hometown of Berea, Ohio, to attend Northwestern--yet he remains fascinated by the dynamics captured in...In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection ... |
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78,06 zł |