{"product_id":"lake-effect-days","title":"Lake Effect Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis critically acclaimed collection\n of very short stories about postwar Buffalo, New York - illustrated in \ncolour with the author's own collages - is now available in paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\n all began in Buffalo between World War II and the Korean Conflict, as \nit was called, when the guys would meet up late at night in a diner for \ntheir brand of fellowship. They were mostly high school graduates in \ntheir late teens and early twenties, the sons of immigrant families. It \ndidn't matter; there was little trace of that showing. They didn't look \nor act alike, but they had a sense of who they were, sort of proud for \nsome reason, without much to show for it. From the introduction, at the \ncentre of the group was Arnie. He might have been selling real estate \nfor the time being, but he always had his eye on the next thing - \nChristmas tree farming, perhaps, or uranium mining. Then there were Moe,\n who had a gas station and garage, and Barney, who drove a truck for \nPop's Pies. Observing it all was an art student working odd jobs to \nafford his paints and brushes - Phil. In 110 vignettes about Arnie and \nthe guys, Philip Sultz presents a fictionalised portrait of the \nworking-class Buffalo of his youth. He also vividly sketches the \ndowntown Manhattan of those days, where his protagonists are drawn to \nstudy and to work. These stories - by turns funny and poignant, \nperfectly told and full of telling details - evoke not only the life of \ntwo cities, but the atmosphere of postwar America. Even in shadow of \nMcCarthyism and the atom bomb, it was a time emblematic of possibility \nand change. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLake Effect Days\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is illustrated \nwith colour reproductions of Sultz's critically acclaimed collages, \nwhich echo the text in their formal perfection and add new layers of \nallusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256605233496,"sku":"9781946053152","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781946053152_51485746-8d77-4eb6-9401-2aa71beb109f.jpg?v=1777555857","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lake-effect-days","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}