Sting-ray afternoons
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Steve Rushin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780316392235
Subjects: Nineteen seventies; Journalists; Family; Sportswriters; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: A bittersweet memoir of the author's 1970s childhood nostalgically shares observations of his family life as it was shaped by influences ranging from the Steve Miller Band and Saturday morning cartoons to Bic pens and Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Eight-track mind; title: One of these things is not like the others; title: When you comin' home, Dad?; title: Glory, glory, hallelujah, teacher hit me with a ruler; title: Wish book; title: As we fell into the Sun; title: Every day's the Fourth of July; title: Through the magic doorgate; title: Ventura Highway in the sunshine; title: Play that funky music, white boy; title: Goodbye yellow brick road; title: Epilogue: Oh, oh, telephone line.