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By Harry Mark Petrakis

ISBN-10: 0809325063

ISBN-13: 9780809325061

ISBN-10: 0809325144

ISBN-13: 9780809325146

Twilight of the Ice, from acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis, is a dramatic story of revelation and redemption set opposed to the backdrop of the Fifties Chicago rail yards. In a vintage yarn expertly balancing the lifelike with the mythic, Petrakis chronicles the lifetime of Mike Zervakis, a Greek immigrant and the final within the line of the robust, expert railroad vehicle icemen, in a occupation changing into out of date with the appearance of recent refrigeration.

After fleeing from the despotic Turkish career of his fatherland of Crete, after which escaping from boyhood servitude in his uncle's shabby Chicago lunchroom, Mike finally reveals his calling within the craft of the ice on the crew tune, the desolate ice depot within the middle of business Chicago. right here, less than the oppressive rule of brutal foreman Earl, and reinforced through the camaraderie of alcoholic former schoolteacher Rafer Martin, Mike carves out his destiny.

Mike's icing international is populated via a coarse workforce of old-timers and beginners, together with the stoic Polish icemen Thadeus and Sigmund, the buoyant and reckless Noodles, the brooding struggle veteran Stamps, and Mike's younger helper and surrogate son, Mendoza. This harsh international can be domestic to Mike's loved, the prostitute Reba; Rafer's temptation incarnate, the delicate Leota and the previous iceman-turned-preacher, Israel, a guy plagued with apocalyptic visions of a moment ice age within which mankind's salvation might rely on the selected icemen.

Beset through age and a failing physique, Mike yearns to discover his inheritor, somebody to whom he can go his ability and his devotion to the craft. After discovering in simple terms chilly indifference one of the younger summer time employees, he ultimately is brought to the strong younger tremendous, S.K., a born iceman. but if S.K. carelessly reasons the dying of an icing veteran, previous hatreds floor and Mike's dream of a successor turns out doomed. All that continues to be for the grasp iceman is a last savage fight opposed to his exacting taskmaster, Earl, and a good extra relentless foe, the twilight of his personal life.

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