The Village Voice, June 23rd, 2004
The jazzed, luminous chronicle of a Chicago son's times AN UNFINISHED SEASON By Ward just Houghton Mifflin, 251 pp. $24 ON THE GRAB Set against the paranoia and corruption of the 1950s, Ward Just's atmospheric 14th novel, An Unfinished Season, is a tale of a boy, 19-year-old "Wils" Ravan, and a city, Chicago, both on the make. The story begins in Quarterday, a prairie nowheresville north of the Loop. What really concerns just, a native Chicagoan, is how municipal politics can infiltrate a working-class household. Chicago is a blue-collar union town, mighty and domineering and filled with pol...
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