Sound of a City Author:James T. Farrell Per [http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/illinois/chap4-f.htm] — Eight of twenty-four short stories, many having never previously appeared in print, present Chicago in all its decadence and glory. "Heinie Mueller," "So Long, Buck," "She Played Wagner and Beethoven," "Escapade," "Rackets and Racketeers, a Vaudeville Sketch," "The Ways of the World," "Casey,"... more » and ''William McNally" are set in Chicago.
CONTENTS: Flowers on Your Grave, a Fable.--Olivia Kane.--Heinie Mueller.--Anna.--Breakfast.--So Long, Buck.--She Played Wagner and Beethoven.--Escapade.--Man on an Island of History.--Rackets and Racketeers, a Vaudeville Sketch.--Ipswich and the Girls, a Fable.--French Post Cards.--A Story About Money.--The Ways of the World.--Casey.--Scene at the Cupola.--Battleship Jack.--Shorty Leach.--William McNally.--Arrival in England.--The Shrapnel.--Shepherd's Pipes.--I Want to Go to America.--Unfabled History.« less