Insights to Growing Up in Chicago: A Tale of an Ordinary Life

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: July 31, 2007 | Copyright information

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Contact: Molly Hart, Director Of Communications of Loyola Press, +1-773-281-1818 x240, hart@loyolapress.com

CHICAGO, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stories from childhood to adulthood, from Southside to Northside, Loyola Press author John Powers shares authentic, classic tales of a Chicago Catholic upbringing.

"You write what you know about," says Powers. "No one had ever written a book about the culture of growing up Catholic. I wanted to write a humorous social portrait of Catholicism in the mid-twentieth century."

Brought back by popular demand, John Powers will ...

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