A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories Paperback - 2000
by Richard Peck
Each summer over the nine years of the Depression, Joey and his sister Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visit to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find it's far from sleepy and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother.
Summary
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
First line
You wouldn't think we'd have to leave Chicago to see a dead body.
Details
- Title A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
- Author Richard Peck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition later printing
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Puffin Books, New York
- Date 2000-10-09
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141303529 / 0141303522
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.06 x 0.5 in (19.66 x 12.85 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 750
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Illinois, Depressions - 1929
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010953
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 09/25/2000, Page 120
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