I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek

I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek

Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets walk butchers, hitmen, mothers and factory workers, boys turned men and men turned to urban myth. I Sailed With Magellan solidifies Dybek's standing as one of our finest chroniclers of urban America.

I Sailed with Magellan (FSG, 2003), The Coast of Chicago (Picador, 2003), and a prior collection of poetry, Brass Knuckles, are among Stuart Dybek's works. He lives in Kalamazoo and works as an English professor at Western Michigan University.