Chicago (29 page)

So Very Much the Best of Us

Reading in Bed

A Book of Uncommon Prayer

Children & Other Wild Animals

The Thorny Grace of It

Grace Notes

Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

Spirited Men

Credo

Saints Passionate & Peculiar

Two Voices
(with Jim Doyle)

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BRIAN DOYLE
is the editor of
Portland Magazine
at the University of Portland and the author of twenty books of essays, fiction, poems, and nonfiction, among them the novels
Mink River, The Plover,
and
Martin Marten.
Honors for his work include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He lives in Portland, Oregon. You can sign up for email updates
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Notes and Thanks

Also by Brian Doyle

About the Author

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Cover design by Ervin Serrano

Cover photographs: man by Bloom Image / Getty Images; cityscape by Maksymowicz / iStock; sky by Flas100 / Shutterstock

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6– author.

Title: Chicago: a novel / Brian Doyle.

Description: First edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015043223| ISBN 9781250061997 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466868076 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Young men—Illinois—Chicago—Fiction. | Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.

Classification: LCC PS3604.O9547 C49 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

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First Edition: March 2016