Format: Paperback; Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; Release Date: 2004; List Price: $17.50; ISBN: 0226443353; Length: 209 pages. Condition: Very Good. Outside top of pages have some slight discoloration. Cover is still in great shape, binding is strong, and pages are otherwise unmarked. Looks very nice! Same cover design as that shown here.

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 French-fried 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.

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