The Cuban Club
ISBN-13: 9781609807894
Author(s): Barry Gifford
Subjects: FYB
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Publication Date: 28-02-2018
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£18.99
About the book
A masterpiece of mood and setting, character and remembrance, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford's ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales. Set in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s against the backdrop of small-time hoodlums in the Chicago mob and the girls and women attached to them, there is the nearness of heinous crimes, and the price to be paid for them. To Roy and his friends, these twists and tragedies drift by like curious flotsam. The tales themselves are koan-like, often ending in questions, with rarely a conclusion.