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Memory's Glass
by William Fox Conner, illustrated by Glenn Felch
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- A touching, Beautifully illustrated, and thoroughly
engaging description of a lifestyle many of us would like to
return to. "It's a terrific read…memorable…and I thoroughly
enjoyed it…I'm also taken with the way you establish the role of cars in the
life of the nation at mid-century…And…by your ways of
establishing climate as a factor in people's lives."-- Rushworth
M. Kidder
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- Excerpts from pages 138-41:
I didn't do market research when I bought my truck. I saw it on a
lot and horse-traded for it. That used to be the way of the land…A
man was known by the automobile he kept. "Oh, you know B.J. Price,"
someone might say. "He drives a Blue Ford."…
I first discovered the semblance between character and vehicle
during the years I waited for the school bus… A retired insurance
salesman, Clyde drove his car slowly and self-consciously. Its wide,
smiling grill suited this easy-going, overweight man…At 7:30 each
school day, my fourth grade teacher burst … down the low grade on
her way to Asbury Elementary in her fifty-two Chevrolet, an ivory
coupe with a gray top and plain black tires.…Miss Harris sat high in
the seat. She's glance in my direction and wave…Then she'd turn her
eyes back to the road and whisk quietly by in Powerglide.
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- ISBN 978-0-936015-53-8
- viii + 152 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
- $12.95
plus shipping, per copy
- US shipping and handling -
$5.00, add
$.50 for
each additional book
- International shipping and handling -
$15.00
for Priority Mail International
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