The Last Fine Time
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| author = Verlyn Klinkenborg
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = Knopf
| release_date = 1991
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| pages = 209 pp
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The Last Fine Time is a 1991 book by American author Verlyn Klinkenborg about a blue collar Polish-American bar in Buffalo, New York, inherited by his father-in-law in 1947.{{Cite news|last=Busch|first=Frederick|date=1991-01-20|title=Washed Up in Buffalo|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/books/washed-up-in-buffalo.html|access-date=2021-05-25|issn=0362-4331}} The story of George & Eddie's, which became a popular nightspot, is the story not only of a family business during a rapidly changing historical period, but of the city of Buffalo in its multi-ethnic heyday. Portions of the book appeared originally in The New Yorker.
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=2yTDAqL-q58C&dq=%22the+last+fine+time%22&pg=PP1 Summary at Google Books]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081010213833/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313191,00.html Book review at Entertainment Weekly]{Dead link}
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Category:1991 non-fiction books
Category:History of Buffalo, New York
Category:Polish-American history
Category:Alfred A. Knopf books
Category:American Book Award–winning works
Category:American non-fiction books
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