Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316392259)

This is 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. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons. Of growing up in a magical era populated by Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. And of 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.

In Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin paints an utterly nostalgic, psychedelically vibrant portrait of a decade overflowing with technological evolution, cultural revolution, as well as brotherly, sisterly, and parental love.

"Funny, elegiac... a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world." -- NPR

Author: Steve Rushin
ISBN-10: 0316392251
ISBN-13: 9780316392259
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2018
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d