He spoke and wrote out of the conflicted heart of Chicago but found
a transcendent emotional jurisprudence in the heart and soul of the
blues/jazz idiom that was his birthright from the bars and juke
joints that shaped his perspective on the human condition. --James
Alan McPherson
I was, to put it mildly, deeply moved that in his last days,
terribly weakened, his words rang true and so strong. --Studs
Terkel
This rich and wonderful work is Forrest's Dubliners. . . . Bringing
this novel together is one of the great comic gifts in
twentieth-century literature . . . but taken to many places even
great Joyce could not go. Like Joyce, Forrest was well aware that
the belly laugh and the most bitter moment of tragedy are forever
twinned. --Stanley Crouch, New York Times Book Review
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