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Informationen zum Autor A native of Chicago's southwest side, John McNally is the author of three novels, most recently After the Workshop (2010), and two story collections. He has also edited six anthologies. The hardcover edition of Ghosts of Chicago was a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and was voted one of the top twenty fiction books of 2008 by readers of The Believer . Of the stories in the book, "The Immortals" was a 2005 National Magazine Award finalist, "Creature Features" received a citation in The Best American Short Stories 2007 , and "I See Johnny" and "Love's Latent Defect" received "Special Citations for the 2009 Pushcart Prizes. McNally, who holds degrees from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Iowa, and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, is an associate professor of English at Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Amy, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with their many animals. Klappentext Originally published: Lookout Mountain, TN: Jefferson Press, 2008. Zusammenfassung Chicago is famously a ‘city of neighbourhoods’ that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life. In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally likewise captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a city and the interior details of his everyday characters.
