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001 2015004602
003 DLC
005 20150204084928.0
008 150203t20151996scu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015004602
020 $a9781611175356 (paperback)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3566.E78$bD7 2015
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC000000$aFIC051000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPetrakis, Harry Mark.
245 12 $aA dream of kings :$ba novel /$cHarry Mark Petrakis ; new foreword by Dan Georgakas.
250 $aNew edition.
263 $a1505
264 1 $aColumbia, South Carolina :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$c2015.
264 4 $c©1996
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"At the heart of A Dream of Kings is Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service ("Solutions provided for all problems of life and love"), proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes, passionately loving husband and father, equally ardent lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula, incurable gambler, and incorrigible fighter. Matsoukas is a fiercely proud Greek immigrant with a zest for the temptations of his new home on Halsted Street in 1960s Chicago. He dreams of conquering the city but the tragic illness of his young son Stavros pits him against the larger opponent of fate. By turns comic and heartbreaking, A Dream of Kings combines the power of classical myth--a man raging against the gods--with the vitality, emotion, and joyous ebb and flow of our all-too-human lives. "The gods have chosen you for eternal disaster," Matsoukas's friend Cicero tells him, "but you take every act that has been prepared for your punishment and turn it into some kind of triumph." A Dream of Kings was first published in 1966. It was a New York Times best seller, translated into twelve languages, and made into a 1969 feature film starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas. This new edition includes a foreword from Dan Georgakas, retired director of the Greek American Studies Project at the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College-CUNY and editor of the Journal of Hellenic Diaspora"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This new edition of A Dream of Kings will introduce the work of a legendary Greek American author to a new generation of readers and, one hopes, will generate renewed scholarly interest in his literary legacy. A Dream of Kings was a New York Times best-seller and a finalist in the National Book Awards of 1966. It was subsequently translated into a dozen languages and was adapted for a 1969 motion picture starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aGreek Americans$vFiction.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Cultural Heritage.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aAdventure stories.$2gsafd