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An edition of Pictures of home (2004)

Pictures of home

"The photographs that were stored on a shelf in the bedroom closet where Douglas Bukowski grew up form the basis for this memoir, Pictures of Home. 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 a fellow Irishman named Richard J. Daley. Each was born within a mile of the other; each received the baptismal name of Joseph; each drew a city paycheck as firefighter or mayor; and each died on the same date in December." "The pictures tell about a husband and wife, their children, and the inevitability of change. While the house they lived in remained much the same from 1939 to 2000, the surrounding neighborhood did not. The streets were transformed, the children grew up, and the man died a slow death to which two daughters and a son bore witness even as they sought to fight it. The mother stays in the house still, comforted by pictures of a life that slips from her memory a little more each day." "Pictures of Home is the story of a family and a city, a very personal history of the great South Side of Chicago (including its lace-curtain sections) told affectionately and endearingly by one who is part of both."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ivan R. Dee
Language
English
Pages
245

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2004, Ivan R. Dee
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Edition Notes

Published in
Chicago
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.3/110049185/0092, B
Library of Congress
F548.9.P7 B85 2004, F548.9.P7B85 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p. :
Number of pages
245

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3303091M
Internet Archive
picturesofhome0000buko
ISBN 10
1566635918
LCCN
2004043847
OCLC/WorldCat
54415929
Library Thing
6088602
Goodreads
572567

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