The Last Fine Time

The Last Fine Time
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0226443353
ISBN-13 : 9780226443355
Rating : 4/5 (355 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Last Fine Time by : Verlyn Klinkenborg

Download or read book The Last Fine Time written by Verlyn Klinkenborg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swank nightspot serving highballs and French-fried shrimp to a generation of optimistic and prosperous Americans. In the inevitable dimming of the neon sign outside the restaurant, we see both the passing of an old world way of life and the end to the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time."


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