Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. by Smith, Robert Paul

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393339413)

Vendor: Robert Paul Smith
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. by Smith, Robert Paul

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

$17.95
Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. by Smith, Robert Paul

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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A hugely popular bestseller when it first appeared in 1957, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. is Robert Paul Smith's nostalgic and often wry look back on his 1920s childhood. Smith agitates against what he perceives as the over-scheduled and over-supervised lives of suburban children as he celebrates privacy, boredom, and time to oneself away from adults. Arcane games and pastimes including mumbly-peg, horse-chestnut collecting, and Indian scalp burns pervade the book, alongside tales of young love--"I loved the smell of kerosene. Rose smelled of kerosene. I loved Rose."--and hard-won observations by Smith the elder. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. still conveys the essence of adventure that forms the basis of a fondly recalled childhood.

Author: Robert Paul Smith
ISBN-10: 0393339416
ISBN-13: 9780393339413
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.50w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/01/2010 pg. 78

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