Book description
In Chicago’s seamy south side in the 1920s there were three seekers after truth who punched. loved, talked and bummed their way around. They learnt about life first-hand, and it wasn’t all the sort of kicks they talked about in college.
Eddie Ryan — worked like a slave to win a university scholarship, walked through his first year’s studies like an easy conqueror of the campus…. then quit.
George Raymond — was Eddie’s neighbourhood buddy. He laid the girls like he was bowling skittles, and made a living off the clientele that frequented the Bohemian Forum.
Alec McGonigle — was the cutest of the three, brash, ambitious, with a silver tongue and a cash register for a brain.
Each struggled to find himself in the heady atmosphere of socialism, bohemianism and endless conversations about Jack London and Gorky, women, bootlegging and what life is all about.
