City Boy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean ThompsonTheme:Cultural Region/Midwest, Cultural Region/Upper Midwest, Geographic Orientation/Illinois, Locality/Chicago, Illinois, Topical/FamilyPublish date:4/5/2005Pages:306
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743242837ISBN-10:0743242831UPC:9780743242837Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family LifeBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.44 x 5.56 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.277Product ID:SCHKQERRPE
Newlyweds Jack and Chloe are building a life together in a modest Chicago apartment. The city is theirs to enjoy as Jack struggles to pursue a writing career and Chloe works downtown, applying herself to the world of high finance. While Jack aspires to be the perfect husband, his own self-doubts and Chloe's office flirtations cast shadows. Jealousy and mis-behavior undermine their notions of themselves and of each other, and their lives take on uncomfortable parallels with the volatile, chaotic existence of their raffish, menacing neighbors. In the intense heat of one Chicago summer, Jack and Chloe's marriage roils into a queasy chemistry of vanity, lust, and greed. Thompson writes with piercing insight and emotional truth, setting off literary fireworks.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743242837ISBN-10:0743242831UPC:9780743242837Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family LifeBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.44 x 5.56 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.277Product ID:SCHKQERRPE
Thompson, Jean: - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.
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