Author:
Rushin, Steve, author.
Physical Descriptionviii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Note:Eight-track mind -- One of these things is not like the others -- When you comin' home, Dad? -- Glory, glory, hallelujah, teacher hit me with a ruler -- Wish book -- As we fell into the Sun -- Every day's the Fourth of July -- Through the magic doorgate -- Ventura Highway in the sunshine -- Play that funky music, white boy -- Goodbye yellow brick road -- Epilogue: Oh, oh, telephone line.
Note: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.
Note:"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 salesmen--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 in 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 brings to life a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love."--Dust jacket flap.
