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Jun 30, 2017 at times stingray afternoons is a little too much wandering through rushins cerebral attic, with esoteric detours into the origin stories of the bic cristal ballpoint pen and the boeing 747. Clean and scrubbing bubbles, lightsabers and those ohsocoveted schwinn sting ray bikes. Clean and scrubbing bubbles, lightsabers, and those ohsocoveted schwinn sting ray bikes. This book is nothing short of a nadia comenici perfect 10. Steve rushin a bittersweet memoir of the authors 1970s childhood nostalgically shares observations of his family life as it was shaped by influences ranging from the steve miller band and saturday morning. Steve rushins sting ray afternoons is a fun and often hilarious account of growing up in the midwest in the 1970s. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Stingray afternoons book charlotte mecklenburg library. A native of bloomington, minnesota, rushin lives with his family in connecticut.

Sting ray afternoons npr coverage of sting ray afternoons. His 20 baseball book, the 34ton bat, will give even the most knowledgeable fan a new understanding of the game, said the wall street journal. Throughout the book i was pleasantly reminded of things from my own past rushin revisits the tv shows, the toys, the games of the era while telling his familys own story. As the anxious middle child in a catholic family with four boys and one girl, overseen by a housewife mother and a father who traveled around the world selling eighttrack tape for 3m, sports illustrated writer rushin the 34ton bat. Steve rushins sting ray afternoons is a fun and often hilarious. In his story of growing up in the 1970s, the author paints an utterly nostalgic, psychedelically vibrant portrait of a decade overflowing with technological evolution and cultural revolution, as well as brotherly, sisterly, and parental love.

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July 8, 2017 sportswriter steve rushins memoir of growing up in minnesota in the 1970s is familiar territory, but rushin mines it with irony and affection, working hard to capture the look and feel of the era. Stingray afternoons steve rushins memoir of the golden age of candy cigarettes, sugar on your grapefruit, and nixon on the tv is an exhaustively thorough, exuberant recollection of growing up in the me decade. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading stingray afternoons. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Sportswriter steve rushins memoir of growing up in minnesota in the 1970s is familiar territory, but rushin mines it with irony and affection. Throughout the book i was pleasantly reminded of things from my own pastrushin revisits the tv shows, the toys, the games of the era while telling his familys own story. We learn about 3m and their competitor memorex as rushins dad was a 3m salesman. Of brothers waking up early on saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Nights in white castle by steve rushin, hardcover barnes. A bittersweet memoir of the authors 1970s childhood nostalgically tours the eras products, history and cultural rebirth, sharing laughoutloud 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 stingray bikes. An awardwinning sportswriter looks back, mostly fondly, at a childhood in the 1970s in a minnesota suburb. Clean and scrubbing bubbles, lightsabers, and those ohsocoveted schwinn stingray bikes. Oct 04, 2017 those who lived their childhoods in the 1970s have found their chronicler in sports illustrated writer steve rushin. Amazon, gold digest, minnesota public radio if you existed in the 1970s and had any awareness of the world around you, steve rushin s sting ray afternoons is going to hit you like the smell of clairol herbal essence shampoo. It begins in bloomington, minnesota, with a yearold kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. Now 50 and with a few sports books and a novel to his name, rushin has come out with a memoir but its not about his years as a bigtime. Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir stingray afternoons, steve rushin captures a bygone era.