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Pictures of Home
Douglas Bukowski
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Description for Pictures of Home
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Pictures of Home is based on photographs that were stored on a shelf in the bedroom closet where Douglas Bukowski grew up. The pictures are a source and a measure. They show a family on the South Side of Chicago, where the children of immigrants fought to keep out the descendants of slaves. They show a boy from Hardscrabble who forever lived in the shadow of Richard J. Daley. The one was born within a mile of the other; each received the baptismal name of Joseph; they both drew a city paycheck as firefighter or mayor; and they died on ... Read more
Pictures of Home is based on photographs that were stored on a shelf in the bedroom closet where Douglas Bukowski grew up. The pictures are a source and a measure. They show a family on the South Side of Chicago, where the children of immigrants fought to keep out the descendants of slaves. They show a boy from Hardscrabble who forever lived in the shadow of Richard J. Daley. The one was born within a mile of the other; each received the baptismal name of Joseph; they both drew a city paycheck as firefighter or mayor; and they died on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635912
SKU
V9781566635912
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Ref
99-15
About Douglas Bukowski
Douglas Bukowski is a Chicago writer and historian whose other books include Big Bill Thompson, Navy Pier, and Baseball Palace of the World. He has written for the Chicago Tribune and has taught American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, and St. Xavier College. He lives in Chicago.
Reviews for Pictures of Home
An accomplished writer. . . . Told in a moving first-person account.
Library Bookwatch
A sensitive and moving memoir. . . . Explores with poignance and compassion a son's passage from childhood to caretaker.
Chicago Tribune
His insights are valuable. . . . Captures the no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere of the city.
Columbus Dispatch
This ... Read more
Library Bookwatch
A sensitive and moving memoir. . . . Explores with poignance and compassion a son's passage from childhood to caretaker.
Chicago Tribune
His insights are valuable. . . . Captures the no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere of the city.
Columbus Dispatch
This ... Read more