Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226734730 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 124 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Samarov captures the most shocking and, sometimes, quietly poignant tales. When chatty barflies, clandestine drug buyers, inebriated sports fans, and prostitutes mentally preparing for johns pour out to their cab driver on a nightly basis, the truth is stranger than fiction."
Very clever, witty and worth reading What a surprisingly good book this turned out to be. I read it one Sunday afternoon and enjoyed so much. The writing it clever and witty and the short episodes the writer describes are so easy to visualize and understand deeply. It has a very authentic feel, a reality to what life is like for all sorts of different people. A few episodes had me laughing hard and long. Some made me think long and hard. I recommend it highly. You won't be disappointe. Excellent Vignettes of City Cab Riders Robert W. Hermanson Dmitry Samarov's "Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab," is an excellent series of vignettes of fares he's picked up over the years. A short book, it's suitable to be read all at one sitting or dipped into now and then, and it's filled with the oddball characters we've all seen on the streets and wondered about. Samarov neutrally and perceptively fills us in on where they went next. If I have one complaint about the book it's that almost ALL the storie. "I love his stories of day to day strangeness that he" according to Flaxchicago. I confess that I know Dmitry (he is a customer of mine). Having lived near and worked in downtown Chicago for decades, I love his stories of day to day strangeness that he encountered driving a cab.
In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime.An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken pass