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Chargement... The Last Fine Timepar Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The story of American families with roots in 19th and early 20th centry immigration. Despite difficult times through changing economics, this book provides the historical understanding of why it remains the city of good neighbours. ( ) This book is a must read if you have any connection to Buffalo,NY and especially if you have Polish or German family that lived in Polonia/Kaisertown section of Buffalo.This book has brought me back to my childhood and numerous visits with my Grandmother.She was born,raised and died in this neighborhood. This book would probably be boring if you have no connection to the city. But the author writes this book as if he lived in this place and time,he has a true feel for the neighborhood and its people. It is hard to believe his information is from his Buffalo born wife and research.He brings second hand information to life. He brings this neighborhood to life again.This neighborhood is currently a gang and drug infested war zone. Much of what the Poles and Germans built and took pride in is long gone...only a memory.Very sad ending to a very rich and diverse culture and history.This is a very good read and highly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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." Book jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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