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Time for Frankie Coolin Author: Bill Granger

ISBN: 9780226202648 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 7 October 2014 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 5.5 x 8.5 x 1.5 Description: Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novelTime for Frankie Coolin. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, it offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago.

Time for Frankie Coolin tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s, buys abandoned buildings and makes them just habitable enough that he can charge minimal rent to his mostly black tenants. Frankieboth a tough guy in the trades and a family manhas done well by his wife and kids, moving them to a house in the suburbs. But a casual favor for his wife's cousinallowing the man to store some crates in an empty buildingand a random act of arson set in motion a cascade of crises, including a menacing pair of G-men and the looming threat of prison if Frankie doesn't talk. But since talking has never been one of Frankie's strengths, he copes as he always has: by trying to tough it out on h...

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