The Last Fine Time
The Last Fine Time
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Author(s): Klinkenborg, Verlyn
ISBN No.: 9780226443355
Pages: 224
Year: 200405
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 30.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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.".


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