Sting-Ray Afternoons - A Memoir
Author(s): Steve Rushin
ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017
A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhood
It's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons and advertising jingles that they'll be humming all day. A father-one of 3M's greatest and last eight-track-salesman fathers-traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home.
It's Steve Rushin's story: of growing up within a '70s landscape populated with Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. Sting-Ray Afternoons paints an utterly fond, psychedelically vibrant, laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of an exuberant decade. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Little Brown & Company
- : Back Bay Books
- : 01 July 2018
- : ---length:- '21.6'width:- '13.5'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Steve Rushin
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 973.924092
- : 336