Overview

Pictures of Home is based on photographs that were stored on a shelf in the bedroom closet where Douglas Bukowski grew up. The pictures and the history behind them are brought to life in stunning fashion in Mr. Bukowski's spare prose. Pictures of Home is the story of a family and a city, told affectionately and endearingly by one who is part of both.

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Bukowski 's book is an honest, affectionate, unsentimental account of an urban working-class life that now seems lost.... How else can we preserve it except through truth-telling books like this one?--Samuel Hynes

An accomplished writer. . . . Told in a moving first-person account. * Library Bookwatch * A sensitive and moving memoir. . . . Explores with poignance and compassion a son's passage from childhood to caretaker. * Chicago Tribune * His insights are valuable. . . . Captures the no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere of the city. * Columbus Dispatch * This is more than another Chicago book. Pictures of Home is a narrative about humanity through the prism of the Bukowski family. -- Michael H. Ebner * Family Narrative * People . . . are depicted in an honest and unsentimental manner. This is a good personal and universal history of the past. -- Florence Clowes * Polish American Journal * You can feel the tension . . . and can relate Bukowski's experience to your own. Vivid telling. -- Susan Lorimor * Daily Southtown * A sensitive, moving memoir. -- Harry Mark Petrakis * Chicago Tribune * A first rate social history. . . . An important contribution to the literature of Chicago. -- Ellen Skerrett, author of Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago's Jesuit University * Catholic New World * Mr. Bukowski's memoir is a wonderful family portrait that endearingly chronicles the essence and importance of heritage. -- Dave Cowan Tucked inside this brick bungalow story . . . is a very candid, sometimes prickly account of Bukowski's relationship with his father. The writing is tough then lyrical, sympathetic then tart, but always with insight that reveals how fathers and sons coexist, and occasionally thrive. A nice job. Not an easy book. Which is to its credit. -- William Brashler Bukowski's book is an honest, affectionate, unsentimental account of an urban working-class life that now seems lost. . . . How else can we preserve it except through truth-telling books like this one? -- Samuel Hynes, awarded 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters An excellently researched literary exploration of his family and Chicago. His impressions of his family and the city are filled with smart and clever observations, often engaging the heart and intellect. * Publishers Weekly *

This is more than another Chicago book. Pictures of Home is a narrative about humanity through the prism of the Bukowski family.--Michael H. Ebner Family Narrative

An accomplished writer... Told in a moving first-person account. Library Bookwatch A sensitive and moving memoir... Explores with poignance and compassion a son's passage from childhood to caretaker. Chicago Tribune His insights are valuable... Captures the no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere of the city. Columbus Dispatch This is more than another Chicago book. Pictures of Home is a narrative about humanity through the prism of the Bukowski family. -- Michael H. Ebner Family Narrative People ... are depicted in an honest and unsentimental manner. This is a good personal and universal history of the past. -- Florence Clowes Polish American Journal You can feel the tension ... and can relate Bukowski's experience to your own. Vivid telling. -- Susan Lorimor Daily Southtown A sensitive, moving memoir. -- Harry Mark Petrakis Chicago Tribune A first rate social history... An important contribution to the literature of Chicago. -- Ellen Skerrett, author of Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago's Jesuit University Catholic New World Mr. Bukowski's memoir is a wonderful family portrait that endearingly chronicles the essence and importance of heritage. -- Dave Cowan Tucked inside this brick bungalow story ... is a very candid, sometimes prickly account of Bukowski's relationship with his father. The writing is tough then lyrical, sympathetic then tart, but always with insight that reveals how fathers and sons coexist, and occasionally thrive. A nice job. Not an easy book. Which is to its credit. -- William Brashler Bukowski's book is an honest, affectionate, unsentimental account of an urban working-class life that now seems lost... How else can we preserve it except through truth-telling books like this one? -- Samuel Hynes, awarded 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters An excellently researched literary exploration of his family and Chicago. His impressions of his family and the city are filled with smart and clever observations, often engaging the heart and intellect. Publishers Weekly

Author Information

Douglas Bukowski is a Chicago writer and historian whose other books include Big Bill Thompson, Navy Pier, and Baseball Palace of the World. He has written for the Chicago Tribune and has taught American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, and St. Xavier College. He lives in Chicago.

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