| Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio Contributor(s): Schwartz, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 188483650X ISBN-13: 9781884836503 Publisher: University of Akron Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99031367 |
| Series: Ohio History and Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Ohio |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a series of stories drawn from his own experience coming of age during the 1950s, Richard B. Schwartz revisits his boyhood in southern Ohio. By turns hilarious and poignant, satiric and nostalgic, the book focuses on a period and place through a perspective somehow both engaged and withdrawn -- engaged through its feeling of innocent immediacy, and distanced because of the awareness developed in the intervening decades. Richard B. Schwartz has written a book that will appeal to many readers, whatever their age, but perhaps especially to those who remember the fifties as they were and as they might have been, when we grew up yearning for slow dances and fast cars, and every little town seemed like the biggest city in America. |
