{"product_id":"sting-ray-afternoons-a-memoir","title":"Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir","description":"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.\n\nIn 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.\n\n\"Funny, elegiac... a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world.\" -- NPR\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316392235\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0316392235.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rushin, Steve\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43317745451069,"sku":"BVV.0316392235.VG","price":6.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0316392235-0.jpg?v=1783029040","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/sting-ray-afternoons-a-memoir","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}