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The Last Fine Time
Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Description for The Last Fine Time
paperback. The chronicle of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, this book recalls the pre-war days when 'George and Eddie's' was a Polish tavern, through the swinging forties when it became a swank nightspot, to its eventual demise amid the changing social scene of modern America. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226443355
SKU
V9780226443355
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About Verlyn Klinkenborg
Verlyn Klinkenborg 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 Yorker, 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.
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