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The Last Fine Time

by Verlyn Klinkenborg

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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."

About the Author

Verlyn Kilnkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, Klinkenborg has been published in the New Yoker, Harper's, Esquire, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Making Hay and a collection of essays, The Rural Life.

Table of Contents

PrologueEddieThomasJuliaAraratEddieAn Innocent PopulationThe FallsEpilogueNotesAcknowledgments

Product Details

ISBN:
9780226443355
Author:
Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Location:
Chicago
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Polish americans
Subject:
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Subject:
Family-owned business enterprises
Subject:
Buffalo
Subject:
Bars
Subject:
Ethnic neighborhoods
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Subject:
Buffalo (n.y.)
Subject:
Wenzek family
Edition Description:
1
Series Volume:
no. 38/2002
Publication Date:
April 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
209
Dimensions:
8.50x5.48x.65 in. .60 lbs.

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