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Sting-Ray Afternoons : A Memoir by Rushin, Steve is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sting-Ray Afternoons : A Memoir about?
A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhood It'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. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. Sting-Ray Afternoons paints an utterly fond, psychedelically vibrant, laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of an exuberant decade. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning...
Who reads Sting-Ray Afternoons : A Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rushin, Steve
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316392242
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, Computer Science
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (1,248 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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