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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 Frenchfried 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Last Fine Time
• Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780226443355
• ISBN: 0226443353
• ID: 04546467
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 141 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2004

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