An American summer : love and death in Chicago
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An American summer : love and death in Chicago
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The work An American summer : love and death in Chicago represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Santa Clara County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- An American summer : love and death in Chicago
- Title remainder
- love and death in Chicago
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Subject
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- Illinois -- Chicago
- Youth and violence
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
- African American youth -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Electronic books
- Social history
- Victims of crimes -- Illinois | Chicago
- Violent crimes -- Illinois | Chicago
- Violent crimes
- Youth and violence -- Illinois | Chicago
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The numbers are staggering: Over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and communities? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing of those who have emerged from the violence and whose stories reveal the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate stories that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and who, twenty years later, is still trying to come to terms with what he did; a devoted school social worker smuggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying the close-up, empathic reporting that made There Are No Children Here a modern classic, Kotlowitz offers a tenderhearted yet piercingly honest testament to the strength of the human spirit. These sketches of those left standing will get in your bones. This one summer will stay with you."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 364.150835/0977311
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HQ799.2.V56
- LC item number
- K68 2019eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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