Description: Old Neighborhood, Paperback by Hillmann, Bill, ISBN 1948954958, ISBN-13 9781948954952, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Chicago’s Far North Side, a few decades ago—a rough-and-tumble place, awash with racial tensions and petty crime. Joey, the youngest child in a mixed-race family, is pushing his way up through the cracked pavement of a chaotic life: parish festivals and block parties on long summer nights, fistfights in back alleys on boring empty days, long walks up and down Clark Street pocketing envelopes of collection money for his older brother, Lil’ Pat. It’s easy enough to pretend it’s all normal, until he sees Pat murder a man in a neighborhood drugstore. Now he’s haunted by the memory of blood pooling on the green tiles under the flickering fluorescent lights, torn by the conflict between love of family and disgust over what they do—and desperate to survive the insanity without being swept up in it. This revised second edition of Bill Hillmann’s modern classic features a new introduction by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. It’s a perfect primer for a great book that deserves a place alongside the likes of Nelson Algren and James T. Farrell on the top shelf of Chicago literature.
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Edition: 2
Book Title: Old Neighborhood
Language: English
Publisher: Tortoise Books
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Urban, General, Literary
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Item Length: 1.1 in
Author: Bill Hillmann
Item Width: 1.1 in
Book Series: New Chicago Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
