Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316392235 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt'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. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental,
--Jon Foro, The Book Review. An Best Book of July 2017: I am a child of the 70s, and for me, the years before I became burdened with job/girls/nuclear holocaust-based insomnia were filled with The Six-Million Dollar Man, Evel Knievel, baseball cards, and Gilligan’s Island reruns, all set to a soundtrack featuring both Led Zeppelin and the soulless, sexless croonings of the Brothers Gibb. Sting-Ray Afternoons is the best kind of nostalgia: celebratory yet clear-eyed, wistful but not overly sentimental. Sting-Ray Afternoons - Steve Rushin’s memoir of the Golden Age of candy cigarettes, sugar on your grapefruit, and Nixon on the TV - is an exhaustively thorough, exuberant recoll
. His work has been collected in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Magazine Writing anthologies. He lives in Connecticut. Steve Rushin is a writer for Sports Illustrated and the 2006 National Sportswriter of the Year. He is the author of four nonfiction books and a novel
Such a fun read, I couldn't put it down and read it in one day! Amazon Customer Extremely enjoyable read about growing up in the 1970s. As a fellow Minnesotan, I could relate very well to the content.. "Simply SpectacularIt reads like Curry Kirkpatrick from my Childhood" according to Chin Music. As evocative a book about my childhood as I have ever read. Steve Rushin captures all the sporting, and lots of the cultural, highpoints of growing up a sports crazed kid in the 1970's and 80s. I wore Tuff Skins and Jeepers and PF Flyers and dreamt of m. you'll LOVE this book If you grew up in the 70's, you'll LOVE this book! ANDif you grew up in Minnesota during this time, you'll love it even more as you'll recognize many of the places mentioned. Steve Rushin is an amazing writer and has a memory of his youth like none othe