The Last Fine Time (Paperback)

Verlyn Klinkenborg (author)

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Paperback 224 Pages / Published: 14/05/2004

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Synopsis

Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Last Fine Time sensitively chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days before WWII as a Polish tavern to 1947, when it became a swank nightspot serving highballs and Frenchfried shrimp to a generation of servicemen. In the inevitable disappearance of George & Eddie's, as narrated by Klinkenborg, we see the passing of both an Old World way of life and the end of the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time." A loving portrait of an era and place, The Last Fine Time is, by turns, an elegy, a celebration, a social history, and a tour de force of lyrical style.

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226443355
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 276 g
Dimensions: 215 x 141 x 13 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"Brings an era to life. . . . All at once, a small, bygone portion of America becomes so real that we seem to be not so much reading about it as drawing it forth from our own memories."
--Anne Tyler "Boston Globe "
"Wittily lyrical. . . . The shining prose of The Last Fine Time radiates both in space and in time."
--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt "New York Times "