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“With humor, drama, and a dash of
classical mythology, fifty-year-old Halsted Street restaurant
owner Orestes Panos stumbles toward the dawn of the millennium.
Thwarting his aspirations to live as heroically as his mythic
namesake are a delusional young beauty and the problems of
a dysfunctional family. In Petrakis’s suspenseful and
moving narrative, Chicago’s streets,
landmarks, Greek restaurants, and weather come stunningly
alive.”
—Martin Northway, founder
of the Chicago arts magazine Strong Coffee
“In The Orchards of Ithaca, Harry Mark Petrakis is
back at what he does best, chronicling the tragic and comic
peaks and valleys of life among Chicago’s Greek Americans.
The mythic Hellenic past of his characters is engagingly
reflected in the comic flair of dialogue and the heroic posturing
that marks their contemporary American lives.”
—Edward Lueders, author of
The Clam Lake Papers
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